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 DURITZIt’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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 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 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.
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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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