Adam Duritz Quotes, Stupid Quotes, Kids Quotes

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 think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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

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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

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

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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 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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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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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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A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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

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