I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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.
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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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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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I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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 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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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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