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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz
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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
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Baltimore
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Adam Fredric Duritz
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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 think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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 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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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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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