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.
ADAM DURITZI’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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All my songs are where I am.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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