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.
AIMEE MANNKnowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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