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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.

Adam Duritz

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
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Breathing Fantastic Mean Song Writing
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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Acros Better Gully Live Lot Make People Sitting Sometimes Waste
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
I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Life Mine Most Music Play Playing Sound
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
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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Again Anxiety Closeness Life People Proximity Want
You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Around Career Reason Song Still Successful Ten Year
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
You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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Embrace Figure Hold Need Patience Want
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
Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
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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Anything Clear Express Feeling Filling Nice Okay Stage Way
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 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
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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Creative Expotentialy Money More Mousse People Process
A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Believe Better December Last Long Reason Trust Year
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
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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Another Appreciate Building Closeness Crazy Fall Fear Painful Person Physically
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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Break Change Find Goes Murder One Rhyme Some Sorrow Way
I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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Crisis Feel Fine Good Panic Really
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
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”
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Ask Comfortable Completely Fright God Me People Rest Stage
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
You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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All Feel First People Person Time Writing
All my songs are where I am.
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Deam Deserve Platform Song Success
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

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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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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