I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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.
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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 your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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 not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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