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I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
Zach Condon Quotes: I put myself in the
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
Zach Condon Quotes: My dad is obsessed with
I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
Zach Condon Quotes: I love the community and
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.
Zach Condon Quotes: As a teenager and a
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
Zach Condon Quotes: In some ways, I feel
I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.
Zach Condon Quotes: I'm not an amazing trumpet
Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being very honest. It is not something I feel like I know anything about; I would not consider myself a writer. I just want to sing, I just want to sing a melody, I just want to feel a melody, and be part of the song, and everything else is not so important.
Zach Condon Quotes: Lyrics are what I tend
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
Zach Condon Quotes: My thought with harmonies and
After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.
Zach Condon Quotes: After so many years of
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
Zach Condon Quotes: Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation
I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
Zach Condon Quotes: I think that there's a
I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.
Zach Condon Quotes: I spent my entire life
I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon Quotes: I fell off a bridge
When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
Zach Condon Quotes: When I came back to
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Zach Condon Quotes: I tend to hear rhythm
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.
Zach Condon Quotes: You always know when a
I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
Zach Condon Quotes: I think that sonically, music
I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.
Zach Condon Quotes: I try to shut my
I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
Zach Condon Quotes: I just reached the point
I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.
Zach Condon Quotes: I think that within the
When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
Zach Condon Quotes: When a city is unstimulating,
I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!
Zach Condon Quotes: I think I spent more
In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
Zach Condon Quotes: In the age of the
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
Zach Condon Quotes: I think, if I had
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
Zach Condon Quotes: I like to think that
If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it - if that makes sense. It's kind of like you need to be in a mental state where everything is so reactionary that you don't double-think anything, and so if it's not immediate then it's probably not going to happen at all, and you should probably toss the song.
Zach Condon Quotes: If every element of the
I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.
Zach Condon Quotes: I feel like I've met
I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.
Zach Condon Quotes: I'm very flash and burn
I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
Zach Condon Quotes: I do feel like my
There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
Zach Condon Quotes: There is a beauty to
I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.
Zach Condon Quotes: I want a song that
I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
Zach Condon Quotes: I was a very good
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