People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. — 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
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that… — 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
I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're… — 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
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in… — 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'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
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
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
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
I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place… — 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
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
“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 found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. — 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
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
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
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. — 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
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
I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with… — 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
