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.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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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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