You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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.
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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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The 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.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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