Adam Duritz Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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.

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.

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

Time and time again I can't please myself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.