I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
ADAM DURITZIf you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking 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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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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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