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.
ADAM DURITZEventually, 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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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