Adam Sandler Quotes
Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
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When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
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When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.
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Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]
