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.
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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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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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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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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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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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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