People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
ADAM DURITZOver and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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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