Quotes by Zachary Cole Smith

Zachary Cole Smith

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

Records

Shows

For me, it’s always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

Band

Be Kind

Important

Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There’s so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don’t know why they take themselves so seriously.

People

Savages

Thinking

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

Clothes

Fashion

Love Is

I didn’t want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I’d had. So when I’m writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I’d had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.

Dad

Kids

Writing

I don’t know if there’s anything that would surprise people, because I don’t think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There’s not much out there. I think I’m going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.

Dark

People

Thinking

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture – I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that’s not really what happened at all.

Ideas

Inspiration

San Francisco

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

Perfectionist

Records

Taken

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

Band

Construction

Kitchen

I think that when people download the record they’re kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it’s really meant to be an immersive experience.

Missing

People

Thinking

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Air

Albums

Ariel

Attention

Band

Be Kind

Believe

Boys

Bullshit

Clothes

Construction

Couple

Courtney

Culture

Dad

Dark

Deny

Different

Drawing

Dull

Empowering

Fall

Fashion

Freedom Of Speech

Fun

Giving

Goal

Grandmother

Hard Work

Home

Ideas

Important

Inspiration

Internet

Kids

Kind

Kitchen

Lasts

Lazy

Lost

Love Is

Made

Mean

Missing

Mom

Negative

Notebook

Opportunity

Passion

People

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Quotes by Zachary Cole Smith

Zachary Cole Smith

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

For me, it’s always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There’s so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don’t know why they take themselves so seriously.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I don’t know if there’s anything that would surprise people, because I don’t think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There’s not much out there. I think I’m going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture – I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that’s not really what happened at all.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

I think that when people download the record they’re kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it’s really meant to be an immersive experience.

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