David Byrne Quotes

Most Famous David Byrne Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best david-byrne quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 David Byrne Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

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.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

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.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

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.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

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.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I've never had writer's block.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

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.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

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.

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

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.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique David Byrne Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.