I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNFor 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Nightly 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.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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 really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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