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.
AIMEE MANNI don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
-
-
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
AIMEE MANN -
I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANN -
They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
AIMEE MANN -
And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANN -
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN -
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.
AIMEE MANN