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
labels benefits feels
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.
artist trying records
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.
brain want needs
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
stories lines littles
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.
selling-more records labels
I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
fall years car
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.
important records care
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.
couple past years
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.
believe people asking
I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.
play limits needs
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.
standards lows process
If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.
thinking interesting who-cares
Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
knowing interesting records
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.
air return wreckage
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.