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 DURITZI’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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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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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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