Adam Granduciel Quotes

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

I don't sit and listen to music all day, although music is a big influence on me.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.