All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
AIMEE MANNAnd if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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