David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrneis a Scottish-born American musician who was the founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth14 May 1952
CityDumbarton, Scotland
writing stuff sometimes
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
house tin ridicule
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
artist exotic done
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
art isolation
The arts don't exist in isolation.
use software constraints
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
use may way
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
divorce emotional emotional-turmoil
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
thinking car people
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.
drama small-details exciting
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
art doe looks
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
new-york paris littles
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
people magazines stuff
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
years benefits clubs
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
new-orleans musical together
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.