Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's… — 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
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — 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
We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of… — 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
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found. — David Byrne Copy Share
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
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
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know… — David Byrne Copy Share
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne Copy Share
