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Adam Schlesinger Quotes
Adam Schlesinger
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 31
,
1967
Band
Music
Song
Think
Work
You
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When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Writing
Tell
Part
Story
Script
Show
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
Think
Musicals
Plot
Would
More
Songs
Part
Stop
Want
Script
Moving
Much
Show
Keep
Need
Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.
Adam Schlesinger
Band
Every
Trick
Cheap
Planet
Played
Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.
Adam Schlesinger
Best
You
Ego
Job
Focus
Think
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Highlight
Putting
Also
Qualities
Make
Without
Artist
Front
Want
Them
Producer
Really
Your
Suggestions
Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Me
People
Jobs
Like
Most
Calling
Gotten
Lot
Maybe
Should
Actively
I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Time
Day
Every Day
Wish
Every
Unless
Projects
Someone
Tend
Could
Write
Period
Am
Very
Just
Stop
Then
Specific
I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
Adam Schlesinger
Guitar
Sometimes
Write
Piano
Studied
Instrument
Occasionally
Although
Normally
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Actually
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
Adam Schlesinger
Music
Lyric
Something
Having
Part
Sing
Came
Just
Interested
Really
It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
Adam Schlesinger
Time
You
Better
Somebody
Own
Project
Say
Would
My Own
More
Purposes
Write
Feel
Like
Involved
Calls
Because
Got
Up
Fewer
Just
Just Because
Really
Working
Hard
Cool
Things
The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Truth
Morning
Truth Is
World
Else
Stay
Finish
Days
Until
Line
Up
Than
Trying
Any
Anyone
Anyone Else
Harder
I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Day
Song
Writing
Treat
Try
Recording
Else
Everything
Stuff
Like
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Whether
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