david byrne Quotes

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

- David Byrne

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

- David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

- David Byrne

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

- David Byrne

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their liveswere so hard that they didn’t really know what happiness was anyway.

- David Byrne

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

- David Byrne

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

- David Byrne

I don't care how impossible it seems.

- David Byrne

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

- David Byrne

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

- David Byrne

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.