Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
AIMEE MANNEveryone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
AIMEE MANNI probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNBut I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
AIMEE MANNI have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
AIMEE MANNTelling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
AIMEE MANNI don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANNAnd if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
AIMEE MANNIt’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
AIMEE MANNI suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
AIMEE MANNIf your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
AIMEE MANNLife is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
AIMEE MANNYou get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
AIMEE MANNAnybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
AIMEE MANNI thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANNWhat’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
AIMEE MANNAll that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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