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
party fooling-around talking-heads
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
tombstone lying suits
That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
brooklyn littles use
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
roots culture world
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
stupid bears ridiculous
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.
simple example kind
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
music translate knows
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
plot purpose stories
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.
talking community concerts
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
video concerts used
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
sex jobs growing-up
Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
emotional creative raw-materials
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.
past why-not building
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
art makeup brain
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.