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.
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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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