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 successful years
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
mean breathing writing-songs
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
song
All my songs are where I am.
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.
art bunch certain express inside songs
Art is just an expression, it's something you do because you need to express yourself. You take what's going on on the inside and put it on the outside, that's just who you are. I just write songs because I feel a certain way. When you've got a bunch of them, that's an album. They're all different.
american-musician dreams films memories
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
amazingly excited proud record
I'm so excited and proud of this album, ... but it was so f-----g amazingly hard. Every record is a new experience.
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.