People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. — 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
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
I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but… — 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
It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe… — 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
