black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Adam Duritz

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.
ADAM DURITZ

Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZ

Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZ

Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZ

Hold Moment Myself Paas Remember Tell Time
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZ

Effect Feel Stuff World Write Writing
I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
ADAM DURITZ

Again Aside Feel Life Love Stood Terrifying Want
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Group Important Kind Life Look More People Shift Work
I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
ADAM DURITZ

Believe Country Couple Down Living Obsessed People Spent
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZ

Always First List Melody Music Together Word
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
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 DURITZ

Bottle Country Enjoy Girl Got Mexico Moment Place Shot Tequilla
Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
ADAM DURITZ

Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
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.
ADAM DURITZ

Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
ADAM DURITZ

Atmosphere Doing Everyone Life Simply Start Unwelcome Used
If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZ

Care Caring Go Just Letting Loosen Really Someone Sometimes Want

You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adam Duritz Quotes