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.
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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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.
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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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