Eddie Condon Quotes

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

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• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

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• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

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• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

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• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

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• 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

  

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• Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

  

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• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

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• You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

  

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• Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

  

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• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

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• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

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• If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

  

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• Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

  

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• When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

  

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• If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

  

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• I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

  

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• [Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

  

  Eddie Condon
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