That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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All my songs are where I am.
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