Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
ADAM DURITZIt’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Losing 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.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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