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.
ADAM DURITZYou live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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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.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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.
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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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