Adam Duritz Quotes, Nice Quotes, Feelings Quotes

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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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. 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'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. 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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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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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

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I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

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

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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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

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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

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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 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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

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