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ADAM DURITZBravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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