All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
AIMEE MANNYou 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 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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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