A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZGot 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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.
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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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