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.
ADAM DURITZGot 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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