Bryce Dessner Quotes

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

I was definitely thinking I'd go to college and make music on the side.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.

I'm a songwriter.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I write on all instruments.