Bryce Dessner Quotes

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

Bryce Dessner

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MusicAmazingWritingMusiciansPart

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Jimmy Chamberlin

LifeMusicMy LifeSacred

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Joan Caulfield

BeautifulMenWomanValuePeople

I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

LoveBestMeWantOutChampionships

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Robert Musil

LifeArtEndYouPerfectKnow

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

John Vanbrugh

HeartWomanRestYouNeverHer

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

WordsYouFeelingsImportantLiving

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

Sigrid

MusicSchoolFunHigh SchoolThink

To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.

Luke Rockhold

TimeProcessRunNo SenseStageUs

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Jason Alexander

WorkSonGreatMeLaughLook

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

Dawn French

LifeI AmMy LifePlaceStayChosen

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

Chris Paul

TimeMoneySaidAlwaysValuable

I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.

Chris Riddell

WorkFeelUncomfortableSayOut

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