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.
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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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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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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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.
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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’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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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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