A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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