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
home cities differences
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
book college guarantees
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
character unique cities
Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.
dream couple order
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.
money
When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
alright
Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.
ideas valuable
As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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
dont-trust
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it
knowledge knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
country land numbers
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.
born songwriting find-me
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.
music people singing
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
unique two self
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.