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.
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.
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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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What’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.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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