Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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