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.
AIMEE MANNI probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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 in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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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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