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I've been playing music most of my life.

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
Life
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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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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
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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 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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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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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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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 have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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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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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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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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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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