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.
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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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