Best Adam Duritz Quotes & Sayings

A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. — Adam Duritz

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment. — Adam Duritz

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

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

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. — Adam Duritz

Time and time again I can't please myself. — Adam Duritz

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

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. — Adam Duritz

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

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

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. — Adam Duritz

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

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. — Adam Duritz

Being in a band is about making the band the priority. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz

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

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. — Adam Duritz

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. — Adam Duritz