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.
AIMEE MANNPeople don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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 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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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