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.
AIMEE MANNIn 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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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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 have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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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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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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