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.
ADAM DURITZAll my songs are where I am.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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The 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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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.
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