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.
ADAM DURITZThere 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.
ADAM DURITZI’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZBut 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 really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZBravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
ADAM DURITZThere’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.
ADAM DURITZMy life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
ADAM DURITZCloseness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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.
ADAM DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
ADAM DURITZThe 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.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
ADAM DURITZIf 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.
ADAM DURITZIf you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
ADAM DURITZ