Adam Granduciel Quotes

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

You grow as a writer when you learn how to make songs flow from start to finish. That's the best song, when it's such a seamless process to get to this release at the chorus, this euphoric feeling. That's why the Beatles were so good - they did such a good job building so much tension in the beginning to this immaculate release, and then it ends.

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I like songs that are simple.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.