Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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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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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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