Bryce Dessner Quotes
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
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Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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I watch you sleep in the still of the night / You look so pretty when you dream / So many people just go through life / Holding back, they don't say what they mean / But it's easy for me / Since you came
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I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
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Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
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Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.
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If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.
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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
