Top 60 Adam Levine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “ADHD isn’t a bad thing, and you shouldn’t feel different from those without ADHD.”

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2. “Chemistry cannot be purchased.”

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3. “I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.”

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4. “Markets are conversations.”

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5. “It’s much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.”

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6. “I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.”

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7. “Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”

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8. “I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don’t think I’m entitled to it. That’s a big difference.”

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9. “I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.”

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10. “In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I’m a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.”

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11. “I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.”

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12. “I don’t date my girlfriend because she’s a model. I date her because I love her.”

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13. “It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.”

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14. “I’ve got the moves like Jagger.”

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15. “The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person’s opinion about it.”

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16. “Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.”

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17. “As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.”

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18. “It’s sweet that I don’t have to do my laundry.”

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19. “I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.”

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20. “At any Maroon 5 concert, you’ll see a room backstage marked ‘yoga.’”

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21. “I’m feeling like the music business is reaping what it’s sown. It’s going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn’t do things right and had a poor business model.”

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22. “It’s a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I’m feeling on any given day. I don’t really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.”

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23. “Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it’s okay to have those feelings.”

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24. “Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that’s actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.”

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25. “Men need to live and breathe women.”

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26. “If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we’d live in a blissful Utopia.”

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27. “Some people don’t like confidence. They resent confidence.”

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28. “Let’s face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.”

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29. “I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it’s inappropriate to be as naked as I am. But I live in California, where it’s always warm, so why not?”

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30. “Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.”

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31. “I’d rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored.”

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32. “Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you’re left feeling hollow and empty.”

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33. “Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She’s so sweet and adorable and hilarious.”

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34. “I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?”

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35. “Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.”

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36. “I had to fight with myself ’cause he’s so good, yet he’s so popular.”

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37. “I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.”

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38. “I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.”

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39. “I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.”

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40. “I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn’t play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.”

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41. “A lot of times people will think, “I’m strong, I’m in shape; why can’t I do this pose?” But that’s not the point. There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.”

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42. “George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”

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43. “I have a high self-opinion – I don’t need to hide that. I don’t need to be self-deprecating.”

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44. “Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.”

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45. “And I think I have a distinct voice.”

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46. “I don’t know if it’s possible to live the rock’n’roll lifestyle and still be romantic.”

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47. “Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.”

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48. “People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.”

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49. “I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.”

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50. “There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.”

— Adam Levine