There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or… — 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
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
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would… — 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
American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways. — 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
