Bryce Dessner Quotes

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I'm an interpreter of music.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I write music visually.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.