It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
ADAM DURITZYou have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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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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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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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’ve been playing music most of my 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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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.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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 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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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