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 think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no…

— Zach Condon

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that…

— Zach Condon

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really…

— Zach Condon

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it…

— Zach Condon

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

— 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…

— Zach Condon

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only…

— Zach Condon

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

— Zach Condon

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Zach Condon

I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm…

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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…

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It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.

— Zach Condon

I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating…

— Zach Condon

I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

— Zach Condon

The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song....…

— Zach Condon

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

— Zach Condon

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.

— Zach Condon

I mean the reason that I started writing close to home, "Santa Fe," et cetera, was a kind of looking back on…

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I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it…

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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 tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on…

— Zach Condon