Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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All my songs are where I am.
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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’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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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