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 DURITZSometimes 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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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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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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