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

  

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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 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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• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

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• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  

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• I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.

  

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• What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

  

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• I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

  

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• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

  

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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