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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

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Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

~Adam Schlesinger

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The Ting Tings have been a huge hit in my family. I have two young daughters, and both of them love that record, so I pretty much have to listen to that ten times a day.

~Adam Schlesinger

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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

Topics: Disappointed Get Hard Know Movie Particular Project Really Walk Work

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We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

~Adam Schlesinger

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

~Adam Schlesinger

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 31st, 1967

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