I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
AIMEE MANNYou drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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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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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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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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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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