People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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