Aimee Mann Quotes, Artist Quotes, Trying Quotes

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. 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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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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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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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. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

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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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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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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 really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

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When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

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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. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

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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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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 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 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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

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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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