I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in. — Adam Granduciel Bar Copy Share Image
I didn't want to start aiming for fame. It would be silly to not have entertained offers. — Adam Granduciel Entertained Copy Share Image
Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way. — Adam Granduciel Different Copy Share Image
I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day. — Adam Granduciel Day Copy Share Image
I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album. — Adam Granduciel Album Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself. — Adam Granduciel Guitar Copy Share Image
When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus. — Adam Granduciel Chorus Copy Share Image
I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together… — Adam Granduciel Anything Copy Share Image
I try to just keep chipping away at, you know, this little idea you may start with and then work on something… — Adam Granduciel Chipping away Copy Share Image
I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed… — Adam Granduciel Context Copy Share Image
I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations… — Adam Granduciel Aspirations Copy Share Image
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what… — Adam Granduciel Art Copy Share Image
I ended up renting a studio in L.A. for about 15 months. Starting in January of 2016, some of the guys in… — Adam Granduciel Band Copy Share Image
I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them… — Adam Granduciel Amazing Copy Share Image
That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure. — Adam Granduciel Creative Copy Share Image
I'd think the house was the source of great sadness or pressure. I knew it wasn't. I knew it was just where… — Adam Granduciel Great Copy Share Image
I think from an East Coast point of view, you'd be like, 'Oh, a California record's a sunny record.' It's like you… — Adam Granduciel Beach Copy Share Image
When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused… — Adam Granduciel Moment Copy Share Image
Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is… — Adam Granduciel Caught up Copy Share Image
Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're… — Adam Granduciel Bruce springsteen Copy Share Image
I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now… — Adam Granduciel Done Copy Share Image
I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or… — Adam Granduciel Dad Copy Share Image
I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing,… — Adam Granduciel Drummer Copy Share Image
When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused… — Adam Granduciel Democratic Copy Share Image
I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get… — Adam Granduciel Emotion Copy Share Image
All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category. — Adam Granduciel Category Copy Share Image
With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern. — Adam Granduciel Chords Copy Share Image
My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A… — Adam Granduciel Anxiety Copy Share Image
The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from… — Adam Granduciel Band Copy Share Image
I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them… — Adam Granduciel Listening Copy Share Image
In high school, I was head of the lab. I dumped a whole five-gallon bucket of D-76 on my head once. It… — Adam Granduciel Clothes Copy Share Image
I've just grown up. Respecting yourself and your art means taking an interest in the other responsibilities. — Adam Granduciel Art Copy Share Image
I can't just go into the studio with one idea and be all in on that, 100 percent. It takes me a… — Adam Granduciel Finished Copy Share Image
My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll… — Adam Granduciel Enough Copy Share Image
All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come… — Adam Granduciel Day Copy Share Image
No I don't play bluegrass harmonica or anything like that. I don't listen to country or bluegrass records. — Adam Granduciel Anything Copy Share Image
In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield… — Adam Granduciel Always Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Granduciel Always Copy Share Image
I love when things can repeat and you can make things slightly different each time and just react to the music and… — Adam Granduciel I love Copy Share Image
