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.
AIMEE MANNIt’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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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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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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