Adam Levine Quotes
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.
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Working with Hirani sir is a big thing for me. At least in my resume, I'll have a mention of his name in my filmography.
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Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
