I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZLosing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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