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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.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• 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.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

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

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Emotional

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

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

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Music

• Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Change, Powerful

• Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Training, Understand, Music

• If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without, Someone, Music

• I’ve always loved acoustic music because I’ve always loved to hear someone’s words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it’s so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Rock, Someone

• I’m not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Word, Difficult, Music

• I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Anything, Music

• 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.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Suggesting

• I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Home

• I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Rock, Music

• I found music to be the therapy of choice.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Choice

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

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

• I think we’re returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That’s where we’re heading. And it’ll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ever, Music

• I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money – as strange as that might sound!

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Feeling, Music

• I am a musician. I didn’t know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn’t hearing somewhere else and I ‘needed’ this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

  Jane Siberry

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Music, Young