There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANNWhen things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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.
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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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You 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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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 things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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