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Adam Schlesinger
American Musician
Born: Oct 31, 1967
Band Music Song Think Work You
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Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything. Adam Schlesinger
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I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon. Adam Schlesinger
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I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit in today's world. I mean, obviously we write a lot of stuff that's catchy, that sticks in your head. But that doesn't necessarily mean that middle-school kids are going to want to listen to a song about a lawyer or a Subaru or whatever. Adam Schlesinger
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I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it. Adam Schlesinger
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I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind. Adam Schlesinger
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I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people. Adam Schlesinger
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Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band. Adam Schlesinger
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In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff. Adam Schlesinger
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A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic. Adam Schlesinger
Song Sometimes Own Logic Up Ends Internal
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
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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
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Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines. Adam Schlesinger
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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
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A band can define their own success. Adam Schlesinger
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I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world. Adam Schlesinger
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If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort. Adam Schlesinger
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What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs aren't 'about' anything. Or, at least, they're not about anything that's obvious or logical. Adam Schlesinger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart. Adam Schlesinger
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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
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Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz. Adam Schlesinger
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it. Adam Schlesinger
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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
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