Adam Duritz Quotes, Want Quotes, Embrace Quotes

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to 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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

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There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

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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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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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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

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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 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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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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've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. 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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I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

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I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

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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 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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