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.
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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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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