Time and time again I can’t please myself.
ADAM DURITZPeople ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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