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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
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 wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
— 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
We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
— David Byrne
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
— 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
Physical contact is a human necessity.
— David Byrne
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
— 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
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
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.
— 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
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
A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
— 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
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
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
— 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
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
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
