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.
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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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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.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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