Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANNNightly 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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 certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making 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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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