It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities. Ryan Adams More Quotes by Ryan Adams More Quotes From Ryan Adams There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never. Ryan Adams positivebeing-happyhappiness They don't make coats for this kind of cold Ryan Adams coatscoldkind When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie. Ryan Adams walksnew-yorkwant I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this. Ryan Adams kissingmouthsknows 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 wake-upcoffeegirl You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat. Ryan Adams sushicleaningarmy That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise. Ryan Adams guitarskillsthinking Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? Ryan Adams nobody-knowsfamous-last-wordslasts Some things were made to be felt Ryan Adams feltmade I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride. Ryan Adams fightingpridethinking Is it possible to love someone too much? Ryan Adams love-someonetoo-much While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver. Ryan Adams laughterpassionheart Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright. Ryan Adams wantforeverpeople I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness. Ryan Adams heartwritingbook 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. Ryan Adams dancingsongmoving I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine. Ryan Adams realsongideas I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life. Ryan Adams vegas It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. Ryan Adams guitarchoicesplayer Bad nights lead to better days Ryan Adams better-daysbad-nightnight To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling. Ryan Adams scarystruggleself
