Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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. 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 really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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