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. 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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 really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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