David Byrne Quotes

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.

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

The world isn't logical, it's a song.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.