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.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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All my songs are where I am.
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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 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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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