#your

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

— Camryn Manheim

#buttons #hey #how #know #parents

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

#certainly #going #greed #hear #i

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

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

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

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. ↗

— Barry Mann

#develop #other #possible #producers #record

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#being selfish #look #me #means #out

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#decided #done #everything #far #get

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#coming #head #i #i always #keep

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#concerned #else #going #nobody #time

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#better #fifty #good #made #than