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.’
AIMEE MANNNo, 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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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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And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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 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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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