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David Byrne
Scottish
Musician
About the author
That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Lies
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#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,
Scottish
Musician
#World
#Play
#Music
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Marriage
#Quick
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Time
#Day
#Food
#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,
Scottish
Musician
#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,
Scottish
Musician
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Style
#Attitude
#Punk
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#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,
Scottish
Musician
#Will
#World
#Reason
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,
Scottish
Musician
#Television
#Sex
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Car
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
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,
Scottish
Musician
#Death
#Disease
#Horror
#Smoking
#Glamour
#Sophistication
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
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,
Scottish
Musician
#Talk
#Love
#Nothing
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Writing
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
Architecture theory is very interesting.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Architecture
#Theory
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#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,
Scottish
Musician
#Talk
#People
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Will
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#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,
Scottish
Musician
#Thought
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Body
#Business
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Trust
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Clothes
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Time
I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
#Being
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne,
Scottish
Musician
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,
Scottish
Musician
#Responsibility
#Trust
#Artist