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.’
AIMEE MANNAll the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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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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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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