I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
ADAM DURITZWhen everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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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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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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 get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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