19 Tremendous Random Quotes From Aaron Dessner

19 Tremendous Random Quotes From Aaron Dessnere

There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.

— Aaron Dessner

We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the commerce side of music, which can be exciting and necessary but ultimately dilutes the creative impulse. The further and further you go down that path is sometimes the further you are from the reason why you started making music.

— Aaron Dessner

One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.

— Aaron Dessner

And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You actually drive right by Gettysburg and some other spots where there were huge battles.

— Aaron Dessner

There are people who want to hear what they consider your hits. There are people who want you to experiment and explore random, rare things. And it's kind of a different; they're two different beasts.

— Aaron Dessner

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

— Aaron Dessner

Our writing, especially during 'Boxer' - the recording process was the writing process, which is not the way I would advise anyone else to do it.

— Aaron Dessner

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

— Aaron Dessner

I kind of love opening, because it's easier and kind of just more fun to get up and play fast and furious and have a good time.

— Aaron Dessner

I am an expert at applying premade pesto to pasta.

— Aaron Dessner

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

— Aaron Dessner

I tried hard not to think about the scope or scale of making a record that would be heard by millions and millions of people. I did a pretty good job of tuning that out.

— Aaron Dessner

There have definitely been phases of the National, many years ago, where we did party, and various people, in their own way, fell off the wagon.

— Aaron Dessner

Just because you listen to The National, Spotify might tell you that you want to listen to The Lumineers' music. Well, maybe you don't.

— Aaron Dessner

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

— Aaron Dessner

I thought I was going to play soccer in college.

— Aaron Dessner

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

— Aaron Dessner

I'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains.

— Aaron Dessner

I'm probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.

— Aaron Dessner

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