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'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
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
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 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
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
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. — 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
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
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
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. — 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
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 will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.... — 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
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily. — 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
“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 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
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. — 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
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
