Bryce Dessner Quotes

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.

Bryce Dessner

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MusicCulturePastThinkYouYoung

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Jermaine Dupri

GameYearsSuccessfulConsistent

A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

Joel Kinnaman

MomentSchoolMeActingPlayNew

Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

Robert Griffin III

MoonNegativeThinkI CanRunUs

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

LoveCulturePerfectionStudy

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

Matthew Macfadyen

WorkLovePeopleMeThinkDoing

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Steve Swallow

StyleMeVoiceLookMy OwnOwn

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

Robert Webb

MarriageParentsYearSeeUpFour

My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

Michael Stuhlbarg

PeopleMeMomThinkCarryI Think

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

Jose Rizal

HistoryControlPoliticalWillSpain

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Drake

LiveMusicWritingThinkingLose

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Chris LeDoux

TimeMeAngelHelpKindNeed

Everybody in technology seems to want big numbers. Steve never got carried away with that. He focused on making the best.

Tim Cook

TechnologyBestNumbersWantFocused

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