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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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More quotes by David Byrne
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
David Byrne
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
David Byrne
I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
David Byrne
Always be skeptical about simplicity.
David Byrne
I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
David Byrne
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done 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
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
David Byrne
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David Byrne
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
David Byrne
We don't make music, it makes us
David Byrne
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
David Byrne
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David Byrne
It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
David Byrne
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
David Byrne
