39 Quotes by 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.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

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.’

I’m very flash and burn – the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that’s because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don’t do that then you’re writing someone else’s music, not your own.

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

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

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don’t understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

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

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.