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Song Quotes by Zachary Cole Smith

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Zachary Cole Smith’s comments on Song feel like a setlist of quick, punchy insights—each one a flash of his indie‑rock ethos. The brevity doesn’t limit the impact; instead, it gives a clear snapshot of how he perceives the power of a well‑crafted track.

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Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

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I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

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All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

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I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than...…

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Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself…

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The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to…

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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in,…

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The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings…

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Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and…

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You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss.…

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I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't…

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There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs…

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I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd…

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For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

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Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you…

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I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to…

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It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

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One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by…

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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

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It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

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Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything…

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Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been…

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I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways…

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If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want…

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All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

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Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've…

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There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

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It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time…

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