I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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