People Quotes by David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people…

— David Byrne

People look ridiculous when they?re in ecstasy…

— David Byrne

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne

People will do odd things if you give them money.

— David Byrne

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

— David Byrne

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

— David Byrne

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit…

— David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.…

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also…

— David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

— David Byrne

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that…

— David Byrne

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

— David Byrne

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety…

— David Byrne

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five…

— David Byrne

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function,…

— David Byrne

I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to…

— David Byrne

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason…

— David Byrne

There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of…

— David Byrne

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic…

— David Byrne

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was…

— David Byrne

I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with…

— David Byrne

When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts…

— David Byrne

“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't…

— 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

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place…

— David Byrne

“Some of you people just about missed it”

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

— David Byrne

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and…

— David Byrne

I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll…

— 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

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in…

— 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

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're…

— David Byrne

I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't…

— 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

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We…

— David Byrne