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
together firsts melody
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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.
people creative process
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.
embrace
You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
trying screw-you screws
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
crisis
I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.
pain
I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.
hurt bravery scare
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
letting-go care
If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
pain people trying
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.
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."
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.
people feel-good together
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.
people sitting world
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.