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
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
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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.
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People will do odd things if you give them money....
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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
song writing thinking
I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.
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I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
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I've never had writer's block.
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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.
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.