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.
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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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