A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
ADAM DURITZSometimes 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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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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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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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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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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All my songs are where I am.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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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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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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. 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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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
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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 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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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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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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