39 Quotes by Zach Condon

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

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.

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

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

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.

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn’t come right away then it’s never going to come at all.

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.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that’s really vague, but it’s true.