“There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.”
Car
“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 it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.”
MusicAll Quotes by David Byrne
“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“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?”
Attitude“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
Music“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
Music“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
Business“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.”
Fear“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.”
Music“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 it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.”
Music“I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.”
Music“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
Music“I don't like begging money from producers.”
Money“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
Art“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
Beauty“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“You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.”
Car“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.”
Home“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.”
Home“The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.”
Music“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
Architecture