Adam Granduciel Quotes

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

There were two things I discovered when I toured with Snoop. One was that the band was all jazz musicians. The second was to instil in me a respect for other styles of music. From then on, whenever I played a new kind of music, I came with the same kind of open mind. What are they trying to do? What are they hearing? How do they see music?

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.