I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANNI thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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 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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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