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.
ADAM DURITZI 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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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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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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You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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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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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
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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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. 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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It’s impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It’s the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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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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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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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