Adam Schlesinger Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
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It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.
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Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.
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A band can define their own success.
