Zach Condon Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Be Kind, Kind, Brutal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me, but for them, it was mind-boggling. Likewise, they could play stuff with relative ease that I never could have. If there was something lost in translation melodically, it wouldn't work at all - we'd just be 17 people in a giant room staring awkwardly at each other. When that happened, I'd go home, figure out what was wrong, fix it, and then return to smooth sailing.

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  Writing, Home, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Summer, Writing, College

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Done, Way

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• 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.

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  Brother, Memories, Dad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Perfect

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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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  Distraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

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  Kind, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Song, Writing, Character

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• It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

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  Crazy, Needs, Might

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• In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

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  Mp3, Special, Age

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

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  Community, Too Much, Saws

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Eye, Excitement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Years, Way, Instruments

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

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  Years, Voice, Generations

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

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  Cities, Isolated

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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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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  Artist, Nervous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.

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  Writing, Kind, Introduction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Stress, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.

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  Force

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

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  People, Looks, Want

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• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Cinema, Way

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• I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.

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  Writing, Cocky, Giving

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• I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

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  Long, Progression, Chords

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