Bryce Dessner quotes

Bryce Dessner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Mattâ€™s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Butterfly Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes
“Itâ€™s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project Iâ€™ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Energy Quotes
“It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Energy Quotes
“A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Song Quotes #Nice Quotes #Interesting Quotes
“Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Self Quotes #Play Quotes #Want Quotes
“There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#People Quotes #Style Quotes #Example Quotes
“Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Beautiful Quotes #Space Quotes #Listening Quotes
“In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Song Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Rocks Quotes
“American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Important Quotes #Negative Quotes #World Quotes
“A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.”
-- Bryce Dessner

#Painting Quotes #Again And Again Quotes

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