Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
Zach Condon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Zach Condon
College
High
Community
Dropped
School
Student
Littles
Lifestyle
Little
Hated
Always
Tried
Students
More quotes by Zach Condon
I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.
Zach Condon
I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.
Zach Condon
I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.
Zach Condon
The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.
Zach Condon
I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.
Zach Condon
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
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
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
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
I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.
Zach Condon
The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.
Zach Condon
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
Zach Condon
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
Zach Condon
What was pretty crazy was to plan a wedding around a tour. It felt very getting-hitched-in-Vegas style. It was like, we played a show in Salt Lake City, ran to New Mexico, we got married, and then I was off to Lisbon.
Zach Condon
I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
Zach Condon
It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
Zach Condon
As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.
Zach Condon
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
Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
Zach Condon
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
Zach Condon