In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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