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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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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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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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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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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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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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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 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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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
Adam Duritz
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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