Aimee Mann Quotes - Page 2

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

  Aimee Mann

  Inspirational, Mean, Really Great

  Song: I've Had It, Album: Whatever, 1993

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Zero, Keys, Perfect

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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.'

  Aimee Mann

  Girl, Interesting, Why Not

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Littles, Too Much, Details

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• I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

  Aimee Mann

  Song, Writing, Piano

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

  Aimee Mann

  Perspective, Lost, Translate

  Song: Invisible Ink, Album: Lost In Space, 2002

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• It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

  Aimee Mann

  Dream, Waking, Easy

  Song: True Believer, 2008

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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

  Aimee Mann

  Sweet, Bird, Cages

  Song: That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart, Album: The Forgotten Arm, 2005

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  People, Perfect, Addiction

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Should

  Song: Invisible Ink, Album: Lost In Space, 2002

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Writing, Come Up, Cases

  Song: I Know There's a Word, Album: Whatever, 1993

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• Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

  Aimee Mann

  Sex, Freak, Save Me

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• I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

  Aimee Mann

  Selling More, Labels, Records

  "Aimee Mann: A Space of Her Own". Interview with Nancy Updike, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2002.

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• People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

  Aimee Mann

  People, Support, Records

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Labels, Benefits, Feels

  "Aimee Mann: A Space of Her Own". Interview with Nancy Updike, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2002.

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Important, Care, Want

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• If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

  Aimee Mann

  Lows, Process, Standards

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Boxing, Trainers, Gym

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Play, Limits, Needs

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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.

  Aimee Mann

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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