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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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