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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
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Music
Firsts
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Always
Never
Melody
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You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
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I've been playing music most of my life.
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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
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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'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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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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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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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. 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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I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. 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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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