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
It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music… — 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
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians. — 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 Image
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 Image
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
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 Image
I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving. — 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 to surprise… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
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 Image
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
