Adam Granduciel Quotes

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

You're always thinking about making new music.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I never complete a song until I'm actually going to make a record.