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.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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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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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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