Adam Schlesinger Quotes

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

When I was young, people didn't even really know what a producer was.

I always made the joke that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put 'Tusk' on and listened to it in their boardroom as a follow-up to 'Rumours.'

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.

I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

The music business and I were made for each other.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.

For me, I've always been intimidated by the computer coming from the era of record industry and record stores and buying records and looking at album covers, waiting in line for records when they came out and then ultimately being successful in a band where we recording pre-computer era.

Just look at the name of Kanye's label: G.O.O.D. Music. That's what it's all about, creating good music.

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.