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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

Adam Duritz

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.
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Album Greatest Make Song Successful Year
Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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All Feel First People Person Time Writing
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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Good Half Leg Pain Played Really Show Snap Snapped Stage
I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Anyone Better Important Just More Necessarily Taking Talking
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
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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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
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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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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Feel Good Group Music People Person Play Together Young
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really

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