David Byrne Quotes
"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."
- David Byrne
(Related: Talk)
"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
- David Byrne
(Related: Music, Play, World)
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
- David Byrne
(Related: Marriage, Quick)
"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
- David Byrne
(Related: Food, Time, Day, Favorite, Spicy)
"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."
- David Byrne
(Related: Love, People, America, Hate)
"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."
- David Byrne
"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."
- David Byrne
(Related: Attitude, Punk, Style)
"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."
- David Byrne
(Related: Beauty)
"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary."
- David Byrne
(Related: Reason, Will, World)
"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
- David Byrne
(Related: Sex, Television)
"I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car."
- David Byrne
(Related: Car)
"That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you."
- David Byrne
"The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove."
- David Byrne
"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."
- David Byrne
(Related: Death, Disease, Glamour, Horror, Smoking, Sophistication)
"To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware."
- David Byrne
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
- David Byrne
(Related: Love, Nothing, Talk)
"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."
- David Byrne
(Related: Writing)
"When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another."
- David Byrne
"All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label."
- David Byrne
"Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?"
- David Byrne
"Architecture theory is very interesting."
- David Byrne
(Related: Architecture, Theory)
"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots."
- David Byrne
"Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional."
- David Byrne
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
- David Byrne
(Related: Creativity, Artist, Myth)
"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
- David Byrne
(Related: People, Talk)
"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same."
- David Byrne
(Related: Will)
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
- David Byrne
(Related: Rebellion)
"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
- David Byrne
(Related: Thought)
"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."
- David Byrne
(Related: Business, Body)
"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."
- David Byrne
(Related: Trust)
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
- David Byrne
(Related: Clothes)
"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."
- David Byrne
(Related: Time)
"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."
- David Byrne
(Related: Being)
"I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills."
- David Byrne
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
- David Byrne
(Related: Trust, Artist, Responsibility)