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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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