I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZI’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Losing 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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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