Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
AIMEE MANNI suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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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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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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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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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