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.
AIMEE MANNIt’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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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