It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZMy life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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