black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Adam Duritz

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.
ADAM DURITZ

Creativity Experiment Fighting Idea Impossible Journey Life Six
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZ

Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZ

Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
All my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZ

Deam Deserve Platform Song Success
That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
ADAM DURITZ

Art Come People Song Thing Understand Worthwhile
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
ADAM DURITZ

Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZ

Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
ADAM DURITZ

Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
ADAM DURITZ

Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
ADAM DURITZ

Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
ADAM DURITZ

Again Aside Feel Life Love Stood Terrifying Want
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adam Duritz Quotes