Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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