And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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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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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