There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic. David Byrne More Quotes by David Byrne More Quotes From David Byrne Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne fidgeting common love 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. David Byrne writing song animal Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. David Byrne intuition creative people The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. David Byrne unique self two I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. David Byrne astronaut agents secret People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit. David Byrne remembers-you remember-you people I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song. David Byrne design song believe Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. David Byrne cycling lonely way Schools are for training people how to listen to other people. David Byrne training people school I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is. David Byrne color white sky I don't care how impossible it seems. David Byrne care seems impossible I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself. David Byrne advertisements versions When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. David Byrne ridiculous stupid bears With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. David Byrne translate music knows It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off. David Byrne bed girl use Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use. David Byrne clay emotional creative 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. David Byrne breakup creative art My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. David Byrne leftovers dinner food 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. David Byrne cylinders ephemeral music-is With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. David Byrne degrees age thinking
