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.
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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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