David Byrne Quotes

• I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

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

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

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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.

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• To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

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

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• Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

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• Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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• 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.

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• When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

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• With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

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• Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

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David Byrne (106)

Birth:	14th May, 1952
Nationality:	American, Scottish
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. He is a Scottish-born American singer, songwriter and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He applied for US citizenship in 2012. He lives in New York City.

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