Adam Duritz Quotes
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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.
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.
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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.
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.
We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
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.
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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.
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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.
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
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.
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.
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.
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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.
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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.
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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.
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
