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Bryce Dessner Quotes

American - Composer | April 23, 1976 -

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

Life Surprise You Will Try Organize

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

Creative Practice Feel You Place

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Love Shadow Falling In Love More Own

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

Moment Guitar Better Over Lead Just

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

Relationship Dance Sister Long See

When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.

Time Best Musicians Possible Score

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

Music Amazing Writing Musicians Part

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

Places More Audience Where Us Than

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

Moving Write Something Like Tour

For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.

Music Great Me Friends Seeing Why

For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

Music Culture Past Think You Young

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.

Together People Think Sometimes True

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