“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
“I don't like begging money from producers.”
MoneyAll Quotes by David Byrne
“I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.”
Music“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
Music“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
Beauty“There's more good music being made now than ever before.”
Music“I don't like begging money from producers.”
Money“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“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
Music“I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.”
Car“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
Music“You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.”
Car“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“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“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“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
Architecture“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“It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.”
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 never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.”
Car“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
Art