You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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 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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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.
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You 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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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.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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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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