Examples People Quotes by Bryce Dessner

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

You don't come to our shows if you want to look cool.

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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,…

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Art is a way of life.

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When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.

— Bryce Dessner

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

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I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

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In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise…

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When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy…

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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

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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…

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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