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.
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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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