David Byrne Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

  David Byrne

  Breakup, Art, Creative

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books

• With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.

  David Byrne

  Mean, Feelings, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

• 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.

  David Byrne

  Song, Feelings, Emotion

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

• 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.

  David Byrne

  Song, Real, Mean

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