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.
ADAM DURITZLosing 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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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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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or 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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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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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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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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