Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
ADAM DURITZWe 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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.
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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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