Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZYour misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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 DURITZPeople ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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 DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZIt’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
ADAM DURITZThat’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.
ADAM DURITZThere is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZWhen 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.
ADAM DURITZTruth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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 DURITZ. 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.
ADAM DURITZOver 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.
ADAM DURITZ