Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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