Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNSomething gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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