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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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.
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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 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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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