74 Quotes by Bryce Dessner

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

Musicians are hungry for new music.

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.

In terms of identity, I'm the same person no matter what I'm doing.

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.