Quotes by Aimee Mann

About Aimee Mann:

Aimee Mann is 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.
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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.

Aimee Mann

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

Aimee Mann

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

Aimee Mann

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Aimee Mann

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

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

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.

Aimee Mann

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

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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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

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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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.

Aimee Mann

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann

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.

Aimee Mann

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 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The...

Aimee Mann

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Aimee Mann

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

Aimee Mann

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

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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

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Author Bio

  • NameAimee Mann
  • DescriptionAmerican indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
  • BornSeptember 8, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Actor; Composer; Musician