Adam Duritz Quotes

I've been playing music most of my life.

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

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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

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

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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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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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You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

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

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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

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

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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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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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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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