I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
ADAM DURITZBeing in a band is about making the band the priority.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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.
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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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 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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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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