I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNAnybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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