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 DURITZFor me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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 so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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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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