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.
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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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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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