37 Quotes by Adam Levine

Adam Levine is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine has won three Grammy Awards, sold over 75 million records worldwide, and has been a coach on the reality TV show The Voice. He is known for his distinctive voice and catchy melodies, and has collaborated with numerous artists, including Christina Aguilera, Kendrick Lamar, and Cardi B. Outside of music, Levine is also a philanthropist, and has supported a variety of causes, including education, healthcare, and LGBTQ+ rights. (Bio)

Adam Levine Quotes


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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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.

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

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

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

There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.

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

I’d rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

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

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

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

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

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

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I’m cocky. It’s different. Cocky is playful.

I’m confident. Some people don’t like confidence. They resent confidence.

Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

I’ve got the moves like Jagger.

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

Men need to live and breathe women.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

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

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.

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.

Markets are conversations.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

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

Nothing wrong with making money. (Meaning)

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

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― Adam Levine Quotes

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Tal Gur is an impact-driven creator at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 life goals around the globe. Tal's journey and recent book, The Art of Fully Living, inspired him to found Elevate Society.

 
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