David Byrne Quotes

• Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn’t guarantee you intelligence of another sort. You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

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

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• You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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• Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

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• Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

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• 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.

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• Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

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• Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

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• We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

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• We live in ugly times.

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• We don’t make music – it makes us.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

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• There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

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• The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

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• The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

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

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• The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

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• The arts don’t exist in isolation.

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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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