Bryce Dessner Quotes

As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.

Bryce Dessner The National

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Poet
  • Take

• I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Size
  • Contribution
  • Finance

• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Certain

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Heart
  • Road
  • Grief

• Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Things
  • Force

• To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Never
  • Drink

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Fan
  • Obsessive
  • Orange is the New Black

• People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Green

• I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Character
  • Song
  • Singing

• Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Great
  • Job
  • Greed

• I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Why
  • Popular

• I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

  

  Katie Price
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

  

  Jeff Gannon
  • People
  • Real
  • Remember

• As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National