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.
AIMEE MANNAll that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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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.
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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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