There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANNI thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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