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 MANNKnowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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