You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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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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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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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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