David Byrne

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

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that…

— David Byrne

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

— David Byrne

“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't…

— David Byrne

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do…

— David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

— David Byrne

The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in…

— 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

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

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason…

— David Byrne

“as if it were the equal of Western classical or art music. The recordings were given respect, thoughtful presentation, and technical attention…

— David Byrne

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

— David Byrne

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

— David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

— David Byrne

We live in ugly times.

— David Byrne

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic…

— David Byrne

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint…

— David Byrne

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

— David Byrne

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

— David Byrne

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop…

— 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

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

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

“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