Adam Granduciel Quotes

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

My music is like my freedom space.

I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.