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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Aimee Mann

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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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
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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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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Allow Anything Girl Gotten Grew Older Realize Thought Time Women
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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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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Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
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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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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Lost Perspective Something Translate
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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero

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