You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZI think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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 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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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.
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