I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZPeople ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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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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If 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.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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