When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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