Aimee Mann Quotes

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.