You 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.
AIMEE MANNI’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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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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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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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