Itโs important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project Iโve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.
Bryce DessnerA good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.
Bryce DessnerThere 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.
Bryce DessnerFor years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Mattโs deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.
Bryce Dessner