Beautiful Quote by Bryce Dessner

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

— Bryce Dessner

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

Art is a way of life.

— Bryce Dessner

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.

— Bryce Dessner

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

— Bryce Dessner

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

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

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

— Bryce Dessner

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

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

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