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.
ADAM DURITZYou want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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I’m really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can’t sit there with someone that loves me.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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