You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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