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I'm not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival. — David Byrne

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. — David Byrne

The arts don't exist in isolation. — David Byrne

People use irony as a defense mechanism. — David Byrne

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. — David Byrne

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself. — David Byrne

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. — David Byrne

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. — David Byrne

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. — David Byrne

People will do odd things if you give them money ... — David Byrne

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. — 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

The world isn't logical, it's a song, — David Byrne

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. — David Byrne

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

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. — David Byrne

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here? — David Byrne

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. — David Byrne

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit ... — David Byrne

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

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. — David Byrne

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be. — David Byrne

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. — David Byrne

We live in ugly times. — David Byrne

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

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules. — David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object. — David Byrne

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. — David Byrne

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing. — David Byrne

You might say that the universe plays the blues. — David Byrne

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. — David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time. — David Byrne

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. — David Byrne

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. — David Byrne

Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. — David Byrne

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. — David Byrne

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. — David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. — David Byrne

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people ... — David Byrne

There is water at the bottom of the ocean. — David Byrne

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation — David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. — David Byrne

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. — David Byrne

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. — David Byrne

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. — David Byrne

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. — David Byrne

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit. — David Byrne

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. — David Byrne

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. — David Byrne

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? — David Byrne

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne

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

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. — David Byrne

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. — David Byrne

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? — David Byrne

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. — David Byrne

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne

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

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

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job — David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. — David Byrne

Architecture theory is very interesting. — David Byrne

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos. — 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

no one has ever gone to war over music. — David Byrne

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. — David Byrne

With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed. — David Byrne

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. — David Byrne

A lot of that worked itself out in the recording. — David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway. — David Byrne

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. — David Byrne

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal. — David Byrne

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat. — David Byrne

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. — David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. — David Byrne

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. — David Byrne

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. — David Byrne

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself. — David Byrne

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

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. — David Byrne

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. — David Byrne

Performers try harder. — David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. — David Byrne

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical - to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it. — David Byrne

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. — David Byrne

If they liked a tune, they wanted to hear it again - now! The vibe was more like CBGB than your typical contemporary opera house. — David Byrne

Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance. — David Byrne

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

People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes. — David Byrne

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. — David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. — David Byrne

Stop making sense — David Byrne

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. — David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. — David Byrne

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling. — David Byrne