You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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 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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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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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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 really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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