Bryce Dessner Quotes
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
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I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
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In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
