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

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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 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.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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.
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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 ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or 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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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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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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