I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric… — 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… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like… — 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
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through… — 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
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 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
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