I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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