I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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