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.
ADAM DURITZEventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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’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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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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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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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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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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