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.Bryce Dessner The National
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Walter Scott -
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig -
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.
Haniel Long -
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!
Gareth Gates -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy -
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones
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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.
Wayne Shorter -
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. Pardo
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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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
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.
Dalai Lama -
I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
Kapil Sharma -
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi -
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.
Ville Valo HIM -
The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
M. J. Rose
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
Damien Chazelle -
I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.
Andrew Davies -
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
John Ortberg -
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
Chogyam Trungpa -
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Gad Elmaleh -
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.
Bryce Dessner The National