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 DURITZI 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.
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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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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.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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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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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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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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.
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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 lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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.
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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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