I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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 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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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’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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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