Feel Quotes

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

David Byrne

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I've never had writer's block.

David Byrne

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We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Tags: Music Tend Physical

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

David Byrne

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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

David Byrne

Tags: Car Never Listen

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

David Byrne

Tags: Attitude Than Rather

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

David Byrne

Tags: Really Lot Different

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

David Byrne

Tags: You Go Lot

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

David Byrne

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

David Byrne

Tags: Good Music More

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

David Byrne

Tags: Take Little Find

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

David Byrne

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I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

David Byrne

Tags: Like More Than

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

David Byrne

Tags: You Them Only

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

David Byrne

Tags: Life Which Lot

I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.

David Byrne

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I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

David Byrne

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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

David Byrne

Tags: See Myself Wanted

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

David Byrne

Tags: Music Me Who

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

David Byrne

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I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

David Byrne

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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

Tags: You Just Love

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

David Byrne

Tags: Who Make Way

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

Tags: You Life Your

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

David Byrne

Tags: Music Home Out

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

David Byrne

Tags: Good Music World

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

David Byrne

Tags: Good Get Which

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

David Byrne

Tags: Music People Just

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

David Byrne

Tags: Good People Think

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

David Byrne

Tags: Good Way Then

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

David Byrne

Tags: History You Get

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

David Byrne

Tags: Me Think Them

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

David Byrne

Tags: Every New Day

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

Tags: Up Life Would

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

Tags: Learning Attitude You

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

David Byrne

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