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 DURITZWhen so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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 feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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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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.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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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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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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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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