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When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
Zach Condon
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I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
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I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.
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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.
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It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.
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I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
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You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.
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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.
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The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.
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