I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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 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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really 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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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