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.
ADAM DURITZMy life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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All my songs are where I am.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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’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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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 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.
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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 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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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