You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANNWhen 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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 selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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 more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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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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