All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
AIMEE MANNAt 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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It’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.
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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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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’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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