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ADAM DURITZThe 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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 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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about 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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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It’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.
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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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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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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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