And 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 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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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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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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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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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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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 believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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