Best David Byrne Quotations
- The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. Amount
- There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. Completely
- There's more good music being made now than ever before. Funny
- When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. Band
- Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? Building
- You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. Car
- You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. Community
- I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists… Artist
- I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that… Call
- It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it… Attitude
- Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them… All
- Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio,… Album
- So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen.… Culture
- There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year… All
- Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice… Actually Using
- Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make… Anybody
- Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm… Adept
- I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live… Another Country
- As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same… Alive
- Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know… Able
- Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily. Get People
- I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is… Asks
- I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. Ambition
- It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off. Bed
- When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. Appears
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