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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.

Adam Duritz

Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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. If this person makes you feel good, then they’re a person to be around; if they don’t, they’re not. Being in a band is different.
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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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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 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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A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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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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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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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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 want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.

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