Adam Duritz Quotes, Girl Quotes, Mexico Quotes

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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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

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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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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

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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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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 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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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. 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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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

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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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I've been playing music most of my life.

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

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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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