Bryce Dessner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
-
On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
-
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
-
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
-
I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
-
I'm a composer, man.
-
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
-
'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
-
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
-
I think I've been a great citizen.
-
Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
-
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
-
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
-
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
-
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
-
I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
-
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
-
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
-
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
-
It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
-
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
-
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
-
I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.
-
It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.
