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David Byrne Quotes

David Byrne Quotes

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

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
David Byrne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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

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



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