60 Quotes By - David Byrne | Status Free Download
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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
— David Byrne
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
— David Byrne
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
— David Byrne
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
— David Byrne
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
— David Byrne
As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
— David Byrne
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
— David Byrne
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
— David Byrne
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.
— David Byrne
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
— David Byrne
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.
— David Byrne
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
— David Byrne
I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
— David Byrne
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.
— David Byrne
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
— David Byrne
Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.
— David Byrne
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
— David Byrne
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
— David Byrne
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
— David Byrne
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
— David Byrne
The arts don't exist in isolation.
— David Byrne
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
— David Byrne
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
— David Byrne
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
— David Byrne
I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
— David Byrne
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
— David Byrne
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
— David Byrne
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
— David Byrne
That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
— David Byrne
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
— David Byrne
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
— David Byrne
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
— David Byrne
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
— 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.
— David Byrne
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
— David Byrne
I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
— David Byrne
We don't make music - it makes us.
— David Byrne
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
— David Byrne
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
— David Byrne
Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
— David Byrne
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
— David Byrne
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?
— David Byrne
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
— David Byrne
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
— David Byrne
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
— David Byrne
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
— David Byrne
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
— David Byrne
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
— David Byrne
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
— David Byrne
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
— David Byrne
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
— David Byrne
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
— David Byrne
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
— David Byrne
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
— David Byrne
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
— David Byrne
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
— David Byrne
The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
— David Byrne
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
— David Byrne
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