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.
ADAM DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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 think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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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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