David Byrne Quotes & Sayings (Page 14)

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

“It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.”

“Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.”

“Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.”

“There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.”

“I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.”

“I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.”

“In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!”

“Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.”

“Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”