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 DURITZCloseness 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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 aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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.
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All my songs are where I am.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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