Quotes from 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 life.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

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 was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

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

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

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

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.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

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.'