. 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.
ADAM DURITZYou want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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