As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice,… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life,… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
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
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself… — 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
