I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible. Zach Condon More Quotes by Zach Condon More Quotes From Zach Condon I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write. Zach Condon kind introduction writing It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele. Zach Condon moving-forward natural moving When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it. Zach Condon music-is america world I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain. Zach Condon guitar pain bridges I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful. Zach Condon cocky writing giving 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.' Zach Condon crazy might needs I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. Zach Condon etc location thinking 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. Zach Condon my-thoughts harmony melody It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit. Zach Condon mistake writing song I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak. Zach Condon next albums years There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same. Zach Condon would-be people thinking I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. Zach Condon creating writing thinking I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would! Zach Condon albums writing thinking 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. Zach Condon cinema way thinking If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it - if that makes sense. It's kind of like you need to be in a mental state where everything is so reactionary that you don't double-think anything, and so if it's not immediate then it's probably not going to happen at all, and you should probably toss the song. Zach Condon writing song thinking I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle. Zach Condon community college school When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. Zach Condon isolated cities After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams. Zach Condon generations voice years 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. Zach Condon instruments way years In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning. Zach Condon mp3 special age
