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
food dinner leftovers
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
song writing love-is
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
technology silence special
Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.
culture stuff depth
Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.
beauty real littles
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
art ideas looks
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.
inspirational music responsibility
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
dance dancing shakes
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
reality uprising littles
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
people needs stuff
There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
dots filling-in filling
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
music translate knows
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
choices found therapy
I found music to be the therapy of choice.
ephemeral cylinders music-is
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.