Time and time again I can’t please myself.
ADAM DURITZThat’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.
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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.
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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 lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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All my songs are where I am.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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Losing 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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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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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 wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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