I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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
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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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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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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