People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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 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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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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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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But 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.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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