Best David Byrne Lines
- I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The… All
- Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them… Create
- Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our… Art
- 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 world… Altered
- I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film,… Animal
- As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. Becomes
- When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing. Funny
- Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright. Along
- Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize… All
- Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is… Creative
- By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close… Close
- There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's… Ads
- There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or… Clean
- Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual… Art
- People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them… Ambitious
- I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole… Curious
- I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody,… Basic
- My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to… Cartoon
- It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something… African
- The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century,… Anywhere
- 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 that… American
- There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling. Feeling
- With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the… All
- There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't… Communicate
- A lot of that worked itself out in the recording. Funny
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