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 MANNThere’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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