Adam Granduciel Quotes

They’re all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that’s it’s okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.
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With a song, you can shove it in a dark closet and tell it you’ll be there when you’re ready.
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The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.
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When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don’t think they’re important.
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Touring is a rough thing. You don’t have any time to look around or stop and think if what you’re doing is making you happy.
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It’s rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they’re all invested in what you’re doing.
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Neil Young, who isn’t really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan.
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I know when the time has come to throw it in the trash can. With a child you’ve got to go to therapy and put it in daycare and buy it birthday presents.
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I think that’s why it feels like songs are really connected, and I like that. They’re all worked on kind of like a little family.
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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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I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, “Okay, now that one’s done.”
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First impressions are always the most important.
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When you’re in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work.
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I love when people will say, “Oh, my songs are my children.” I understand that, but I’m also not afraid to kill my kids.
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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
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