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 MANNTelling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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 know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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 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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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