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.
ADAM DURITZIt’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of 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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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