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.
ADAM DURITZBravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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 aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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