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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
Playing
Music
Life

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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.
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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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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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'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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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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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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.
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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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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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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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