That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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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.
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