Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mannis an American rock singer, singer-songwriter, bassist and guitarist. She was the bassist and a vocalist for the band 'Til Tuesday during the 1980s and since then she has primarily released albums and performed as a solo musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 September 1960
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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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 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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.
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The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from the dead-end world where she lives in the South, ... They run off together and wind up in a casino town, like Reno or Vegas, and their relationship falls apart.
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Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy.
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I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who uses creative terms to describe certain aspects, and I thought it was an interesting-sounding term that would fit in with the concept of the album.
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I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.
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People yearn after this robotic dream, but you can't strip your life of all meaning, emotion and feeling and expect to function.
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I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last cool project.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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.