Adam Rex Quotes

There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

I'm just looking for that one song that I know everybody's going to be like, 'Damn, that's a good song.'

If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

I realize that I've had Ian Van Dahl: 'Castles in the Sky,' the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then 'Castles in the Sky' will just happen. Maybe that's some sort of indication that it's actually my favorite song of all time.

The great thing about 'Coco' is that for anybody who hears it, it just sticks.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer song.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

You can't tell me what to feel

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second