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 MANNI don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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