It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZTime and time again I can’t please myself.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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I’ve been playing music most of my 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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. 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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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