It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more 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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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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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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