I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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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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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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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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. 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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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