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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

Adam Duritz

I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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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
Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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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
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
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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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Actually Involved Live Lot Need People Think Thinking Worse
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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Around Band Different Feel Good Make Person
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’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
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
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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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
If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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Again Myself Please Prove Time
Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.

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