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.
ADAM DURITZI’ve been playing music most of my life.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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All my songs are where I am.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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’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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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