Adam Granduciel Quotes

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.