When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. David Byrne More Quotes by David Byrne More Quotes From David Byrne I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be. David Byrne songwritingfind-meborn I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' David Byrne distancepeoplethinking Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. David Byrne unlimitedchoices A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy. David Byrne sexycitieslittles Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? David Byrne why-notbuildingpast Body odor is the window to the soul. David Byrne window-to-the-soulodorbody This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around. David Byrne fooling-aroundpartyexpression I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? David Byrne storiesseatwo Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. David Byrne fillingfilling-indots I found music to be the therapy of choice. David Byrne therapychoicesfound I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. David Byrne stagefacespeople Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing. David Byrne makeupbrainart There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work. David Byrne realsongmean I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. David Byrne uprisinglittlesreality Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story. David Byrne plotpurposestories From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little. David Byrne parisnew-yorklittles To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. David Byrne musicresponsibilityinspirational The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means - allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece - when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!". David Byrne raceviewsmean I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity. David Byrne sentencesclaimswriting When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. David Byrne visibledetailsdumb
