If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
ADAM DURITZI think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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