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 DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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 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.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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