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David Byrne Inspirational Quotes (115)

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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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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.
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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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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?
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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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