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.
AIMEE MANNYou 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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