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
trying screw-you screws
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
girl mexico bottles
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in...
together firsts melody
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
please i-can
Time and time again I can't please myself.
doors white fog
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
remember moments i-can
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
writing stuff way
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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.
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.