Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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 have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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