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.
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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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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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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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