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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
Musician
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
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More quotes by Adam Duritz
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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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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A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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I've been playing music most of my life.
Adam Duritz
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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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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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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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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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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 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.
Adam Duritz
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
Adam Duritz
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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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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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.
Adam Duritz
I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
Adam Duritz
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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