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ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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 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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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