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.
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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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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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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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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 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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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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 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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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 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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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