“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsWould BeHonestReactionsBeing HonestTouring Author:Zach Condon
“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.” ThinkingWayDoneShowsAudienceHellImpossibleCreationInternetImportanceBedroomProliferation Author:Zach Condon
“It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesCertainSongBitsMy OwnInterestingMistakeAcceptingRecordsFocusNeededLittle BitAlbumsReally InterestingTempoVery FamousReally Positive Author:Zach Condon
“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.” WayGivingWritingMindWellsProblemWantedWillingSceneDirectorsMusic IsStrongerAwfulCockySoundtracks Author: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.” ThinkingWayFeelsHas BeensI CanInspiredCinemaSoundtracks Author: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.” WayFeelsTryingYearsHurtStressEndureRidiculousConsistentlyHomelessTouringSuitcases Author: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.” WayFeelsYearsInstrumentsStretchingDilettantes Author:Zach Condon
“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.” WayYearsPlayStuffPlayerMirrorsNotesSevenRidiculousSmokeShakesRight TimeSeven YearsTrumpetsVibrateSmoke And Mirrors Author:Zach Condon
“Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.” ThinkingWayGivingPathGuidesTrumpetsInstrumentation Author:Zach Condon
“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.” WayWritingDifferentCharacterStoriesSongQualityFaultsDifferent WaysSongwritingEpic Author:Zach Condon
