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.
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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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