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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Knowing 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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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’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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