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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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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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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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The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.
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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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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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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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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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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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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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