I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
ADAM DURITZStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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 been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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