You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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I 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.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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