There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZI’ve been playing music most of my life.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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