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
thinking people make-you-happy
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.
distance life-is shame
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
important wake-up world
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
country couple believe
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
thinking life-is moments
I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
creativity fighting ideas
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.
fighting winning heartbreaking
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.
thinking people needs
There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
embrace
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.
people abuse heartbreaking
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.
people anxiety want
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.
play people peers
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.
priorities band
Being in a band is about making the band the priority.
people understanding connections
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.