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 DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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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 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.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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