...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.... — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“All that interconnectedness that facilitated much of the explosion of megawealth over the last decade also facilitated the interpenetration of everything, so no one… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
