You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZI can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
More Adam Duritz Quotes
-
-
You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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 DURITZ -
A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
ADAM DURITZ -
You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZ -
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
ADAM DURITZ -
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZ -
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ