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.
ADAM DURITZIf you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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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 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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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