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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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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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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 a crisis, because I don't panic.
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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 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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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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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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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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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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.
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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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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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