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.
AIMEE MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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