I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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