Time and time again I can’t please myself.
ADAM DURITZ. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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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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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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