I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.
ADAM LEVINEDoing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.
More Adam Levine Quotes
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Chemistry cannot be purchased.
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Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.
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Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.
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When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you’ll see a room backstage marked ‘yoga.’
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George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean
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The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person’s opinion about it.
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That’s not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. … A lot of people probably did, I don’t know, [but I did not].
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You wouldn’t be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?
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I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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I don’t really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.
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People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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It’s a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I’m feeling on any given day.
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Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.
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I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.
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Men need to live and breathe women.
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Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.
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I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced.
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I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn’t play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.
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Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.
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There’s a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men… And if you’re in the public eye, to me, it’s very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don’t ever reveal any truth.
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