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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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Always Closeness Hard People Really Shame Want Work
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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Band Brand Making Music Name Prior Priorities Sound
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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Bottle Country Enjoy Girl Got Mexico Moment Place Shot Tequilla
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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Abuse Common Constant Heartbreaking Live People Truly
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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Big Echo Hole Life Seem Shouting Sometimes World Yelling
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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Because Better Country Couple Day Eyes Much Oklahoma Open People Really Rest Shame
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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Alone Like Lonely People Person Spiritual Thinking World
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Involved Money Movie Much Screws Someone Somewhere Try Trying
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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Distance Into Life never Shame Started
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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Away Group Myself Peer People Play Young
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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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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Important Nothing Part Up Wake World
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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Group Important Kind Life Look More People Shift Work
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Early Hear Hollis Brown Need People Person Unbelievable Up
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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Better Happy Make Often People Right Thinking
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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Being Breath Breathing Busy Pain People Trying Year
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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Believe Country Couple Down Living Obsessed People Spent
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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Daffodil Emotion Myself Pain Patience Wrap
A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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Dealing Feel Good Important Life People Person Relate
I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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All Feel First Limiting Myself Some Thinking Time Writing
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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Between Connection Negotiable Offstage People Person Understanding
Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Activity Entertain Entertainment Event Everyone Fun Misery
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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Art Come People Song Thing Understand Worthwhile
. 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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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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Better Fight Fighting Heart Heartbreaking Live Losing Truth Winning
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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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