You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
ADAM DURITZIt’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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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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