Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
David Byrne
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
Actor
Artist
Blogger
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
Music Journalist
Musician
Photographer
Notoriously
Suspicious
Artists
Coming
Community
Business
Artist
Anything
Snooty
More quotes by David Byrne
I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
David Byrne
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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
A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
David Byrne
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
David Byrne
Physical contact is a human necessity.
David Byrne
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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
I love getting out of my comfort zone.
David Byrne
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
David Byrne
Always be skeptical about simplicity.
David Byrne
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.
David Byrne
A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
David Byrne
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
David Byrne
We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
David Byrne
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
David Byrne
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?
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
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
David Byrne
London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.
David Byrne
