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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Aimee Mann

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 MANN

Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music Think
In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
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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Anger Desperation Flame Flirt Fuel Good Like Need Nothing Real
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anymore Matter People Real
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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Back Black Burn Care Flame Game Moth Once Real See Wing
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anymore People Record Support Themselves
I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Always Coming Knock never One Out Punch
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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Allergic Car Context Fall Listen Music Old Radio Reaction Thing Working Year
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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Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
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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Benefit Feel Label Major Start Work Working
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Jailhouse King Lighten Load Queen Road Share Think Thinking
Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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Care Cool Interesting Less Thinking Want

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