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.
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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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. 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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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