People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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