My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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