David Byrne Quotes - Page 4

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

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

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

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.

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

Architecture theory is very interesting.

People will do odd things if you give them money.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

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.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

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

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

I've never had writer's block.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.

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