David Byrne Quotes

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

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.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often...

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

I don't like begging money from producers.

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

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.

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 st...

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.

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.

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

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.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

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 rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

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.

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

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