I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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 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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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