All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. — 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
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and… — 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
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
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
There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling. — 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
Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could… — 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
Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure… — 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… — 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
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
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together… — 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
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — 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
“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
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
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. — 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
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
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
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
There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the… — 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
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. — 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
