California Quote by Aaron Dessner

The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference.…

— Aaron Dessner

My wife is from Copenhagen and her father has been a huge Liverpool supporter since the early 1960s.

— Aaron Dessner

I grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware once, and…

— Aaron Dessner

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized…

— Aaron Dessner

And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You…

— Aaron Dessner

I tried hard not to think about the scope or scale of making a record that would be heard by millions and millions of…

— Aaron Dessner

I do have a way of playing piano where it's very melodic and emotional, but then often it's great if whoever's singing doesn't sing…

— Aaron Dessner

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for…

— Aaron Dessner

I think the idea is that every time we perform Big Red Machine music it should be different somehow - like, different people, different…

— Aaron Dessner

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish…

— Aaron Dessner

Anyone who's speaking up about anything becomes a target.

— Aaron Dessner

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

— Aaron Dessner