Adam Duritz Quotes

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.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

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

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.

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.

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.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

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.

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.

I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

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.

A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

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.

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

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.

I've been playing music most of my life.

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

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

All my songs are where I am.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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.

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