You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
ADAM DURITZI’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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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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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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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 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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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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’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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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