A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZYou have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
-
-
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZ -
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
ADAM DURITZ -
My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
ADAM DURITZ -
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZ -
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZ -
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
ADAM DURITZ -
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
ADAM DURITZ