All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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 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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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