Bryce Dessner Quotes
The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
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I don't fear anything now.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
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As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.
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'Swingers' was a little closer to what my real experience was. 'Crazy Eyes,' whoever's experience that is, I'm telling you what, that was one heck of a ride.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
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The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.
