The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true,… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time.… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share
