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.
As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements … - Zach Condon
As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements …
- Zach Condon
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. - Zach Condon
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering. - Zach Condon
There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.
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 li… - Zach Condon
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 li…
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspect… - Zach Condon
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspect…
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, an… - 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 should come out of a natural place, an…
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 coul… - 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 coul…
I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful… - 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 that I just became an awful…
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically. - Zach Condon
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
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