My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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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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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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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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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