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.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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