If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZA long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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