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.
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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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 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 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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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