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
We don't make music, it makes us
cheer real sadness
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
italian engineering heaven
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
sexy cities littles
A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
motivation inspiration bird
We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
sex television pistols
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols
music song believe
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
window-to-the-soul odor body
Body odor is the window to the soul.
jobs ignorance maps
Science's job is to map our ignorance.
song attitude guitar
Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
thinking age degrees
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.
world used form
A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
acid minutes
It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
fifty dollars interviewers
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.