I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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 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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