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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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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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