And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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