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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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If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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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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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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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 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.
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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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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