People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANNLife 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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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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