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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
Entertainment
Misery
Everyone
Else

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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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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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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 can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
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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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If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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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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All my songs are where I am.
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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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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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You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
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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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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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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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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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If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
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Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
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