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
use software constraints
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
writing stuff sometimes
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
house tin ridicule
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
people use defense
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
hate latin america
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
art isolation
The arts don't exist in isolation.
musician modest amount
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
thinking people hip-hop
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
made
There's more good music being made now than ever before.
song artist cds
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
thinking car people
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
thinking people faster
I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
attitude thinking symphony
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
running central-park riding
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.