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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

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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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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
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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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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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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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All my songs are where I am.
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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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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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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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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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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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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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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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