We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
ADAM DURITZIt’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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All my songs are where I am.
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