Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
ADAM DURITZTruth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
ADAM DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZIt’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. 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.
ADAM DURITZThe 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 DURITZIt’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZA long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZSometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
ADAM DURITZIf you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
ADAM DURITZYour misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
ADAM DURITZIf 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.
ADAM DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZAll my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
ADAM DURITZ