23 One And Only Selected Quotes From Adam Schlesinger

23 One And Only Selected Quotes From Adam Schlesingere

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

— Adam Schlesinger

Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.

— Adam Schlesinger

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

— Adam Schlesinger

For me, it's just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.

— Adam Schlesinger

A band can define their own success.

— Adam Schlesinger

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

— Adam Schlesinger

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

— Adam Schlesinger

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

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.

— Adam Schlesinger

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

— Adam Schlesinger

As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

— Adam Schlesinger

In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.

— Adam Schlesinger

The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.

— Adam Schlesinger

The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.

— Adam Schlesinger

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

— Adam Schlesinger

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.

— Adam Schlesinger

Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.

— Adam Schlesinger

With the TV stuff, we usually hand in final, finished tracks. The turnaround time is so tight that there's no time to demo anything; you just do it.

— Adam Schlesinger

I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.

— Adam Schlesinger

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

— Adam Schlesinger

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.

— Adam Schlesinger

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

— Adam Schlesinger

I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'

— Adam Schlesinger

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