Adam Duritz Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Lonely Quotes

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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

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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've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. 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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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. 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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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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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 live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

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You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

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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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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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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 a crisis, because I don't panic.

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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

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