If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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 feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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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 been playing music most of my life.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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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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