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.
AIMEE MANNOne 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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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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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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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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