Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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