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.
ADAM DURITZLosing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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.
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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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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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.
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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.
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