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.
AIMEE MANNIt’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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 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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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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 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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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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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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