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.
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.
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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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 get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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’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 have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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