All my songs are where I am.
ADAM DURITZI think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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