Song Quotes by David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

— David Byrne

The world isn't logical, it's a song,

— David Byrne

“Music isn't fragile.”

— David Byrne

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

— David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

— David Byrne

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

— David Byrne

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

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

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

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

— David Byrne

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music,…

— David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over,…

— David Byrne

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and…

— David Byrne

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

— David Byrne

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial…

— David Byrne

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

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,…

— David Byrne

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

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

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't…

— David Byrne

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to…

— David Byrne

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

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening…

— David Byrne

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,…

— David Byrne

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

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

“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music…

— David Byrne

“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

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

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

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the…

— David Byrne

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

— David Byrne

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

I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.

— David Byrne

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

— David Byrne

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

— David Byrne