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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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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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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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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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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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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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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Though I'm not a huge fan of The Rock, I admit that I am a fan of the fact that he does his own thing. He gets excited on the mic. He yells. He didn't listen to what people told him to do, and people responded to that.
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Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
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The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives, would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank. They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt.
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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.
