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 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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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 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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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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