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.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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