Bryce Dessner Quotes

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

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• I think twerking is overrated.

  

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• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  

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• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

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• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

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• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

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• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

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• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

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• Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

  

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• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

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• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

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• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

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• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

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• They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.

  

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• He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

  

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• A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

  

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• The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

  

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• I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
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  • Rock