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.
ADAM DURITZOver 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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