It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZIt’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZA lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
ADAM DURITZThere 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 DURITZIt’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 DURITZThe 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.
ADAM DURITZStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
ADAM DURITZBut 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 DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZWe 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 DURITZA long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZCloseness 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.
ADAM DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZI can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZ