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Time and time again I can't please myself.
Adam Duritz
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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
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Adam Fredric Duritz
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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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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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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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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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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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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. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. 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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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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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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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.
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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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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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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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