Music Quotes by David Byrne

“Music isn't fragile.”

— David Byrne

We don't make music, it makes us

— David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

— David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

— David Byrne

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

— David Byrne

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

— David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

— David Byrne

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

— David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

— David Byrne

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses,…

— David Byrne

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music,…

— David Byrne

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing…

— David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over,…

— David Byrne

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most…

— David Byrne

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

— David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music…

— David Byrne

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include…

— David Byrne

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include…

— David Byrne

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy…

— David Byrne

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't…

— David Byrne

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It…

— David Byrne

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with…

— David Byrne

“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music…

— David Byrne

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening…

— David Byrne

“It was rumored that the length of the CD was determined by the duration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, because that was Norio…

— David Byrne

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

“The act of making music, clothes, art, or even food has a very different, and possibly more beneficial effect on us than…

— David Byrne

“as if it were the equal of Western classical or art music. The recordings were given respect, thoughtful presentation, and technical attention…

— David Byrne

“I had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the…

— David Byrne

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for…

— David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

— David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there…

— David Byrne

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

— David Byrne

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

— David Byrne