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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.

Aimee Mann

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Aimee Mann
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 9
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.
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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. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. 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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