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.
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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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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.
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