“I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.”
Car
“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”
FoodAll Quotes by David Byrne
“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
Music“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
Music“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”
Food“Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”
Future“I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.”
Trust“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
Business“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
Architecture“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“We don't make music - it makes us.”
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“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
Art“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“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“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“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“I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.”
Car“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“It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.”
Marriage