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