Famous Quotes

Quotes by David Byrne

• I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
• I don't like begging money from producers.
• I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
• I found music to be the therapy of choice.
• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
• I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
• I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
• I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
• 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 moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
• 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 kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
• I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
• If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
• It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
• It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
• 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 like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
• It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.