I’ve been playing music most of my life.
ADAM DURITZWhen 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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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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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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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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