Adam Schlesinger Quotes

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

Adam Schlesinger

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• Writing
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• Singing

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

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• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

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• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

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• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

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• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

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• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

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• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

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• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

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• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

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• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

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• When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

  

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• I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'

  

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• Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

  

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• If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

  

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• There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

  

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• I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song