Adam Granduciel Quotes

Adam Granduciel

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 15, 1979

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.

Adam Granduciel

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.

Adam Granduciel

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

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My siblings weren't playing music; I was the only one who wanted to buy a guitar and was listening on headphones the whole time.

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I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

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You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

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My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A general anxiety runs pretty deep.

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I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or seventh grade I went over and played it and immediately I was super excited by the whole thing.

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I've just grown up. Respecting yourself and your art means taking an interest in the other responsibilities.

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That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

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All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

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In high school, I was head of the lab. I dumped a whole five-gallon bucket of D-76 on my head once. It ruined all my clothes.

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I've seen people who like a certain song write on their Instagram what they think the lyrics are - which they aren't. I'm like, 'Oh, that's interesting - you can create your own adventure with some of these songs.' Which is really cool.

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I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in.

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There are so many great records that when you grow older, you're like, 'Oh man, this is the best record ever made.' And you're like, 'Oh it didn't get nominated or win a Grammy.' It's countless, how many amazing, classic American records haven't been knighted or whatever.

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I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.

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I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.

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When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos.

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When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.

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