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Ryan Adams
57 quotes
“It's not very fashionable nowadays to have a philosophy that demands a lot of life. I tend to be drawn to people who are emotional - now they'd be called 'crazy'. Pollock, Jasper Johns, Toulouse-Lautrec. People said, 'They're off their nut!' Was Faulkner off his nut because he stayed in his house for eight months at a time writing books, and then you'd find him drunk up in a tree, making out with some old black woman? I think that's fuckin' great!”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blender (August/September 2001)
“I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rolling Stone (February 14, 2002)
“My lifestyle changed when this wonderful person came into my life. I couldn't sleep for years. All of a sudden, I don't know why or how, but I slept.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spin (December 2003)
“I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spin (February 2006)
“I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blender (December 2003)
“I've got maybe five or ten jean jackets with jeans. I can pack three to four pairs of denim jeans, five T-shirts, ten Western-style shirts, and two ties and just buy socks when I get there. That, a Walkman, two books, and some records, and I'm out the door for a year. Not a problem. Doesn't freak me out at all. Usually, if you're thinking about your clothes too much, you're probably not high enough.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GQ (April 2002)
“What happens is, people get a little taste of fame, and they get used to having things go that way, and the ego really kicks in. They'll do whatever it takes to stay there. They get addicted, and they make decisions that don't have anything to do with music. You get big like that, and people will maybe come and see you once. It never lasts. It's not real. I'll tell you this - it's fucking real behind a guitar.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harp (July/August 2005)
“It’s like—I don’t know, sometimes it’s like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do…I can do.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MySpace - Easy, Tiger description/interview by Stephen King (May 2007)
“I was doing soundcheck, and Rancid was playing over there. That's some good shit. Actually, it wasn't Rancid, it was the opening band, the Distillers. I was like, screaming and shit. Running around. I had no one to slam dance with. I was very lonesome. It was very singer-songwriter.”
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“If I had a reed made of lightning I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightning but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.”
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“Most of my songs are about ladies. This one's about ladies metaphorically. There are some of my songs that are about the power of lightning.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Songwriters' Circle, 2012
“When you get the time Sit down and write me a letter When you're feeling better Drop me a lineI wanna know how it all works out I had a feeling we were fading out I didn't know that people faded out That people faded out so fast I wanna show you all the things I got inside But you know those parts of me died Just like us they faded out They faded out so fast When there was love enough left to fix it But there it is”
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“And I'm tired of living here in this hotel,Snow and the rain falling through the sheets.In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street.Strung out like some Christmas lightsOut there in the Chelsea night.”
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“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”
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“She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell, And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still. She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette, And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get.”
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“Real. Real like a plastic bouquetThat thrives on the smoke from an old fireplaceAnd dies every night with her face on the news.Nobody cries, they just smoke and stare and their shoes.The only difference is,The only difference is,Nobody can cry -It's hard to doFor most folks, without a reason why.”
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“There's something in the way she eases my mind And lays me across the bed till I close my eyes. Stirs me in the morning till I can't ever be satisfied. I leave Carolina every night in my dreams, Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave. Rock me like a baby doll and hold me to your chest, But I'm always moving too fast.”
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“As a man I ain’t never been much for sunny days. I’m as calm as a fruit stand in New York and maybe as strange. But when the color goes out of my eyes, it’s usually the change. But damn, Sam, I love a woman that rains.”
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“I would've held your mother's hand on the day you was born. She runs through my veins like a long black river and rattles my cage like a thunderstorm.”
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“See her smiling at him? That used to be me, and I could find her in a thunderstorm just by the way that the rain would fall.”
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“Just a nobody girlWith a radar to the scene.When the emptiness finds youYou find all the numbers you need.You say you follow your heartWell, honey, you're just being lost.You could you follow your gutBut how much would it cost?”
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“They carved your name into a stone and then they put it in the ground. I run my fingers through the grooves when no one's around, Drink till I'm sick and I talk to myself in the dog days of the summer. Then I feel you coming but I don't know how...”
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“One night at the diner over eggs, Over easy she showed me the length of her legs, But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of money from pushing a meal.”
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“I feel just like a mapWithout a single place to go of interestAnd I'm further north than southIf I could shut my mouthShe'd probably like this.”
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“These things inside me, they repeat like broken recordsSpinning pretty things behind my eyesAnd when I can't look at youI can paint your picture perfectly in my mindAnd when I get oldI'm gonna miss you all the time.”
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“All the sweetest winds they blow across the south”
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“While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax”
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“Words may move but they’re never moving fast enough”
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“Bring you down, can't bring you down Bring you down, can't hear the sound Run through the river and head to town Pretty little moon with it's head hung down Chin up. Cheer up.”
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“Do you remember stormy winter? Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon”
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“Well we can't be strong”
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“You didn't see us, nothing can free us”
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“If I could tell you something, I would tell you it all”
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“Well, everybody wants to go forever”
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“Dancin' where the stars go blue”
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“The night plays games”
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“Well, the night makes moves”
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“The night destroys the sun”
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“Sleep now and your angels will come, dear”
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“Forever only takes its toll on some”
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“So close your eyes”
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“And I do this all in time to the music”
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“Note to self: don't change for anyone”
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“So, I am in the twilight of my youth”
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“Walking through a star field covered in lights”
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“Let's take a ride to the easy plateau”
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“Bad nights lead to better days”
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“The mirrors in the room go black and blue”
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“Daylight comes and exposes”
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“And the pain in the morning comes as easy as it goes”
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