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.
ADAM DURITZI’ve been playing music most of my life.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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If 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.
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All my songs are where I am.
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