. 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.
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
-
-
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZ -
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 DURITZ -
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
ADAM DURITZ -
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
ADAM DURITZ -
You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
ADAM DURITZ -
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.
ADAM DURITZ -
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
ADAM DURITZ -
Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
ADAM DURITZ -
When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
ADAM DURITZ -
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
ADAM DURITZ