Bryce Dessner Quotes
Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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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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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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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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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?
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Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.
