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.
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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I’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.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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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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