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.
AIMEE MANNTelling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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