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 DURITZI 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.
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I’ve been playing music most of my 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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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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.
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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 you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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That’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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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 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 aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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