David Byrne Quotes (52 Quotes)

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It's about his policy. It's about those creative business decisions that he made. It's not about the building.

required an immediate response from the European Union.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

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

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

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.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

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

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health.

It's an exciting opportunity to have people out playing before the season starts.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

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

the very minimum necessary to begin the process of re-building consumer confidence in beef.

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.

The proposals are essential for the enhancement of consumer confidence,

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

We need to find out more about the source of the disease before we can decide when to lift the ban,

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

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

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Distance marketing is currently dominated by classic techniques such as mail and telephone, but the directive is also a key step in creating a regulatory framework to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce, inside a consumer's member state or across borders.

It's a very democratic instrument, everyone is reduced to the same amateur level.

It's obvious that advertising pays, otherwise people wouldn't advertise -- so now we're getting on that bandwagon.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive -- and it still informs other kinds of music.

The consumers' trust has been eroded and the EU must restore public confidence in its food science and controls,

I had demons and felt socially inept.

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

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

People need to be shocked out of their complacency about tobacco,