Adam Duritz
Adam Duritz
Adam Fredric Duritzis an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, in which he is a founding member and principal composer of their catalog of songs...
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth1 August 1964
CityBaltimore, MD
song
All my songs are where I am.
up-early people band
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
writing how-you-feel feels
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.
trying might losing
For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
song art worthwhile-things
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.
yelling echoes world
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
people stage ask-me
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
pain daffodil ifs
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain
believe years long
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
entertainment misery
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
nice feelings way
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.
playing-music
I've been playing music most of my life.
people feel-good important
A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.
stupid kids years
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.