There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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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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