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 DURITZYou have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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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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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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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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