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
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. — 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
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial… — 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 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
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
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
“The iPod, like the Walkman cassette player before it,C allows us to listen to our music wherever we want. Previously, recording technology… — 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… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time,… — 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
“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
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as… — 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
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
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 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