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.
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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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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