I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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.
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 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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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