In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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