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.
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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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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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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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’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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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 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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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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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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