Bryce Dessner Quotes

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

Bryce Dessner The National

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
  • Days

• Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
  • Infection

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Always
  • Craftsmanship

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Happy
  • See
  • Face

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Never
  • Mayor

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Small
  • Health

• 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.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Up
  • Wind

• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Love Is

• I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Trying

• Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

  

  John Berger
  • Future
  • Choices
  • Ethics

• My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Remember

• I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National