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
summertime mind
I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
european immediate required response
required an immediate response from the European Union.
beef consumers countries ensure exports expose france french higher measures risk
I need clarification of the measures which France intends to put in place to ensure that its beef exports do not expose consumers in other countries to a higher risk than French consumers.
advertise advertising obvious otherwise people
It's obvious that advertising pays, otherwise people wouldn't advertise -- so now we're getting on that bandwagon.
operators technology
The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.
dolls wanted
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
choices unlimited
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
seducing
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
emotional body bass
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
producers begging
I don't like begging money from producers.
made
There's more good music being made now than ever before.
different band
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
fun home trying
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.
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary