Adam Duritz famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Adam Duritz

#Country #Couple #Believe
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...
-- Adam Duritz

#Girl #Mexico #Bottles
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
-- Adam Duritz

#Distance #Life Is #Shame
All my songs are where I am.
-- Adam Duritz

#Song
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#People #Lasts #Records
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
-- Adam Duritz

#Talking #Important
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#People #Creative #More Money
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#Song #Successful #Careers
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
-- Adam Duritz

#Trying #Screw You #Screws
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
-- Adam Duritz

#Important #Wake Up #World
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#Stupid #Kids #Eight
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#Song #Art #People
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
-- Adam Duritz

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

#Believe #Years #Long
Time and time again I can't please myself.
-- Adam Duritz

#Please
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
-- Adam Duritz

#White #Fog #Doors
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
-- Adam Duritz

#Remember #Moments
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
-- Adam Duritz

#Mean #Breathing #Fantastic
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.
-- Adam Duritz

#Echoes #Yelling #World

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