When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZThere 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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 wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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