Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s 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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I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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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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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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