Adam Duritz Quotes, Play Quotes, People Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Play Quotes , People Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , People Quotes , Stage Quotes

I've been playing music most of my life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Panic Quotes

Time and time again I can't please myself.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Please Quotes

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Together Quotes , Firsts Quotes

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Remember Quotes , Moments Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Writing Quotes , How You Feel Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Up Early Quotes , People Quotes

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Bravery Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Fighting Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Fog Quotes , Doors Quotes

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Winning Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Priorities Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , People Quotes , Creative 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Lonely Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , People Quotes , Records Quotes

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Life Is 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Kids Quotes