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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.

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  Adam Schlesinger
Tags: Work  Song  Sometimes  Band  Pretty 

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Adam Lyons Schlesinger[1] (born October 31, 1967) is an American songwriter, record producer, and performer. He has won Emmy, Grammy, and ASCAP Pop Music Awards and been nominated for Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe Awards.

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I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

    Adam Schlesinger  Adam Schlesinger   
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It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

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 Tags: Music Philosophy Try You Odds Air
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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.

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 Tags: Work Day Writing Treat Song Try
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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.

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 Tags: Work Morning Truth Truth Is World
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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.

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I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

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 Tags: Music Something Sing Just Interested
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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.

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