If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZIf you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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