I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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 believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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For 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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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