Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Whether
Types
Less
Noticed
Moving
Younger
Fear
Video
Artist
Drawing
Music
Various
Gallery
Different
Artists
Sculpture
Things
Type
Sorts
More quotes by David Byrne
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
David Byrne
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?
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
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
David Byrne
People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.
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 couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
David Byrne
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David Byrne
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
David Byrne
I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
David Byrne
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
David Byrne
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David Byrne
It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
David Byrne
You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
David Byrne
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
We live in ugly times.
David Byrne
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.
David Byrne