Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
AIMEE MANNBecause 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.’
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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 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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