You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
ADAM DURITZThat’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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 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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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.
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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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