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.
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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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All my songs are where I am.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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’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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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