Bryce Dessner Quotes
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
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If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.
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The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.
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One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
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Musicians are hungry for new music.
