American - Musician | October 31, 1967 -
With Fountains of Wayne, after 'Stacy's Mom' happened, we started making a little bit more money and getting a little bit more known.
Adam Schlesinger
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I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
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In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.
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A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
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Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
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Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.
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Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
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I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.
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For me, it's just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.
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A band can define their own success.
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If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
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Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.
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