People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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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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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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 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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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