For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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.
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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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