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.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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’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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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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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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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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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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