#no

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#buttons #hey #how #know #parents

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#big #else #knew #me #nobody

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#heritage #hungarian #music #now #playing

There's nothing as real as money. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#nothing #real

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. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#any #anymore #enough #good #healthiest

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

— Aimee Mann

#flavor #get #i #piano #songs

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #almost #choice #everybody #existed

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. ↗

— Barry Mann

#alcohol #become #big #fear #how

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. ↗

— Barry Mann

#close #come #enough #faked #get