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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
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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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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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All my songs are where I am.
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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'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
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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'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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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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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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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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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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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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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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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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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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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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