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Adam Duritz

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Band Brand Making Music Name Prior Priorities Sound
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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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Art Come People Song Thing Understand Worthwhile
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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Being Breath Breathing Busy Pain People Trying Year
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
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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Actually Involved Live Lot Need People Think Thinking Worse
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.
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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
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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Better Create Embrace Life Make Sometimes Take Understand
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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Eight End Infinite Kid Old Possibilities Possible Remember Stupid
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
If 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.
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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really

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