I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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.
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