Adam Granduciel Quotes

Adam Granduciel

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 15, 1979

I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them by heart. They're classics.

Adam Granduciel

I try to just keep chipping away at, you know, this little idea you may start with and then work on something for seven, eight months. Eventually it just kind of turns into something.

Adam Granduciel

I mean, Philadelphia, if the Eagles were to win the Super Bowl, you kind of wonder how it'd change the city in some way. At the end of the day, as intense as Eagles fans are or as Philadelphia fans are, they really just love their team and they'll be happy either way. The Eagles have made Philadelphia proud.

Adam Granduciel

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

Adam Granduciel

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

Adam Granduciel

It was definitely strange to come home and all of a sudden have to shift gears into creative mode. I kind of had to figure out what it was about music that made it exciting, and question what it was that made it worth sacrificing all the other parts of my life that weren't as satisfying.

Adam Granduciel

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound. You don't want one thing to be bright, or too prevalent.

Adam Granduciel

I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or two of moving to Philly I felt there was something I could be a part of.

Adam Granduciel

I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.

Adam Granduciel

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

Adam Granduciel

Every show with my Jazzmaster is like a new show.

Adam Granduciel

The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from Philly once a month.

Adam Granduciel

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

Adam Granduciel

I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together and then going back.

Adam Granduciel

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

Adam Granduciel

I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something that worked in the context of a song that I might have been working on.

Adam Granduciel

I'd think the house was the source of great sadness or pressure. I knew it wasn't. I knew it was just where I lived. But I'd walk up the stairs and the second floor was just desolate. My old bedroom: empty. My old rehearsal room: empty. First floor studio: messy and empty. Middle room: broken gear everywhere.

Adam Granduciel

I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.

Adam Granduciel

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

Adam Granduciel

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

Adam Granduciel