Bryce Dessner Quotes
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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Use your powers for good instead of evil.
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I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.
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Most harm is done by people who are awake.
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Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
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I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
