Bryce Dessner Quotes

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.