I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANNIt’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of 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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