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
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
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. — 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
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
You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not… — 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
The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial… — 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
