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.
AIMEE MANNBut 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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