Lou Adler Quotes

#1. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Merry Clayton

#2. I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

Lou Adler

#3. It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#4. To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Confucius

#5. Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

Andrew Napolitano

#6. Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

Lou Adler

#7. I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

Alan Palomo

#8. In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

Lou Adler

#9. None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

#11. I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing ... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Lou Adler

#12. The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

Hugh Hefner

#13. When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Lou Adler

#14. Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

Lou Adler

#15. I didn't know," he whispered. "I didn't know I could love you so much.

Christina Lauren