What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
AIMEE MANNWhen things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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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 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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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