People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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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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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 everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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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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