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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.

Aimee Mann

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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Computer Divorce Down Generated Guy Literally Lot Music Sit Sound
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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Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying
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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Admit Bad Confront Doubt Maybe Momentum Past Sake
Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
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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Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anymore Matter People Real
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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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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Jailhouse King Lighten Load Queen Road Share Think Thinking
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Different Flavor Piano Song Want Writing
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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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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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