David Byrne

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

— David Byrne

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

— David Byrne

It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

— David Byrne

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

“Stop making sense”

— David Byrne

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

— David Byrne

We live in ugly times.

— David Byrne

I've never had writer's block.

— David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

— David Byrne

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

— David Byrne

“Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.”

— David Byrne

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

— David Byrne

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

— David Byrne

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

— David Byrne

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

— David Byrne

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated…

— David Byrne

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

— David Byrne

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

— 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

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of…

— 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

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a…

— 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

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

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

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

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general…

— David Byrne

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It…

— David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when…

— 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

“The act of making music, clothes, art, or even food has a very different, and possibly more beneficial effect on us than…

— David Byrne

“Likewise—now don’t laugh—cars and trucks should view the bike lanes as if they are sacrosanct. A driver would never think of riding…

— 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

“It was rumored that the length of the CD was determined by the duration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, because that was Norio…

— David Byrne

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what…

— David Byrne

“It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that…

— 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 had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the…

— David Byrne