But 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 MANNBetter take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Life 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.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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I 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.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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