“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
Music
“People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.”
MusicAll Quotes by David Byrne
“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
Architecture“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 records in their bedrooms.”
Home“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
Music“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. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.”
Music“It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.”
Music“Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.”
Attitude“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
Music“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.”
Death“We tend to mistake music for the physical object.”
Music“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
Art“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 are going to be crap. It's just a given law.”
Music“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”
Trust“I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.”
Music“I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
Business“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
Business“You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.”
Car“People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.”
Music“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.”
Music“I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.”
Car