57 Quotes by Aaron Dessner

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

I thought I was going to play soccer in college.

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.

For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You actually drive right by Gettysburg and some other spots where there were huge battles.

There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.

From the very beginning, we just sort of made things up together. That's one of the great things about having a twin brother; you have a sort of feedback loop, where you can bounce things off of each other.