David Byrne Quotes - Page 4

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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

  Triumph, World, Unnecessary

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

  David Byrne

  Divorce, Emotional, Emotional Turmoil

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

  David Byrne

  Wave, Bus, Passengers

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Moving, Artist, Drawing

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• 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

  David Byrne

  Jobs, Sex, Growing Up

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

  David Byrne

  World, Used, Form

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.1, Faber & Faber

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

  David Byrne

  Don't Trust

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• Architecture theory is very interesting.

  David Byrne

  Interesting, Architecture, Theory

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

  David Byrne

  Dumb, Details, Visible

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• People will do odd things if you give them money.

  David Byrne

  People, Giving, Odd Things

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• To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

  David Byrne

  Dance, Dancing, Shakes

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

  David Byrne

  Video, Used, Concerts

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Interview with Jeremy Deller, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Running, Central Park, Parks

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Modern Painters Interview, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Life, Change, Country

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  David Byrne

  Cycling, Joy, Faster

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Interview with Jeremy Deller, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Clothes, Summertime, Mind

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• I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Everyday, Relevant

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• Things fall apart, it's scientific.

  David Byrne

  Fall, Falling Apart

  "Song: "Wild Wild Life" ("True Stories")". 1986.

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• I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

  David Byrne

  Survival, Musician

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• Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

  David Byrne

  Order, Swim, Feelings

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• 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.

  David Byrne

  Talking, Records, Tables

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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

  David Byrne

  Guy, Suits, Bigs

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• I've never had writer's block.

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  Block, Writer's Block

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