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.
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.
- 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.
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 …
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…
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…
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 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…
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.
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…
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