Adam Duritz Quotes, People Quotes, Stage 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."

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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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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

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

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

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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 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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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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

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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to 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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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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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. 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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

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