The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — 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
“The act of making music, clothes, art, or even food has a very different, and possibly more beneficial effect on us than… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“as if it were the equal of Western classical or art music. The recordings were given respect, thoughtful presentation, and technical attention… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — 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
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
