Bryce Dessner Quotes

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I like life to surprise me.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

You never know what's really going to hit.

Life is all about the unexpected.

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.

I love when things don't go to plan.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.