Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
AIMEE MANNI certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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