People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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