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Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is 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, of which he is a founding member and principal composer.

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I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

Been In Love, Feels, Love, Stood, Terrifying, Want

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Affects, Stuff, Way, World, Writing

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

Crisis, Good, Panic

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.

Believe, Cities, Country, Couple, Life, Obsessed

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

Appreciate, Closeness, Crazy, Fall, Physically

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

Anyway, Bravery, Hurt, Scare

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, Come, Good, Song, Sounds, Worthwhile Things

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

Lasts, Music, Opinions, People, Realise, Records

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.

Biggest, Life Is, Moment, Moments, Person, Thinking

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

Band, Making, Priorities, Priority

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

I Can, Moments, Remember, Tell, Times

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.

Change, Eight, Kids, Possibilities, Stupid

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.

Embrace, Life, Take, Understand, Worse

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.

Happy, Make You Happy, People, Right, Think, Thinking

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.

Comfortable, Feel Good, Group, Make, People, Together

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

Important, Life, Talking

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Important, Nothing, Part, Wake Up, World

I've been playing music most of my life.

Life, Music, Playing, Playing Music

All my songs are where I am.

Song, Songs

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

Entertainment, Everyone, Misery

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