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.
ADAM DURITZI can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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’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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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