People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
ADAM DURITZEventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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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 think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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