I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZYou 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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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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