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.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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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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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.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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