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.
ADAM DURITZI 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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