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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In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
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Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
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Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
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Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.
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I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.
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The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.
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You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.
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I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.
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Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
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Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
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Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.
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Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
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We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
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I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.