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
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
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be… — 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 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 resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. — 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
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt… — 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
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
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
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 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
“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
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. — 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
“and echoes to my singing. More sounds went on—an arc-like melody created using an echo machine, and then a guitar solo at… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be… — 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
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
“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
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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