Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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
Look
Looks
Great
People
Distances
Distance
Travel
Rich
Poor
More quotes by David Byrne
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David Byrne
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
David Byrne
A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
David Byrne
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
David Byrne
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
David Byrne
There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
David Byrne
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
David Byrne
A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
David Byrne
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
David Byrne
As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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
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
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne
A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
David Byrne
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
David Byrne
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
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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