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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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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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 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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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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