Quote

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

David Byrne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Music
Ever
Made
Good

More quotes by David Byrne

Image
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
David Byrne
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
David Byrne
Image
You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
David Byrne
Image
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
David Byrne
Image
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne
Image
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
David Byrne
Image
What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.
David Byrne
Image
I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
David Byrne
Image
I love getting out of my comfort zone.
David Byrne
Image
Body odor is the window to the soul.
David Byrne
Image
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
David Byrne
Image
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
David Byrne
Image
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
David Byrne
Image
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David Byrne
Image
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
Image
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
David Byrne
Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
David Byrne