Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
Zach Condon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Zach Condon
Really
World
Joke
Realized
Jokes
Came
America
Back
Music
More quotes by Zach Condon
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
Zach Condon
It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big deal to me, and it changed me in a lot of ways. And now that it's five, six years later, I wanted to look back at that, the start of it all, the excitement and the naïveté about it, and it just fascinated me to reflect on all that.
Zach Condon
I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.
Zach Condon
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
I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
Zach Condon
I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
Zach Condon
I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
Zach Condon
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
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
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
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, You have to practice three hours a day! I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
Zach Condon
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
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
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'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.
Zach Condon
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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
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
I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.
Zach Condon