I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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