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 DURITZYou aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
-
-
It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZ -
All my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZ -
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZ -
If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZ -
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ