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.
AIMEE MANNI did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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