David Byrne Quotes

• Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

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• Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

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• Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Physical contact is a human necessity.

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• People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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• People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

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• 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.

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• One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

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• Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

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• 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.

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• Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

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• Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

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• 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?

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• It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

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• 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.

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• I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

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• I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’

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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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