Adam Duritz Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Fall Quotes

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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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

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

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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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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. 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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

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

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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

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If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

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Time and time again I can't please myself.

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