For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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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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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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’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 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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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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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