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
new-orleans musical together
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.
music-is affected
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
attitude musical style
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
musician modest amount
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
home enjoy music-is
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
appreciate musician certain
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
survival musician
I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.
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.
music people singing
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
music translate knows
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
inspirational music responsibility
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
ephemeral cylinders music-is
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
found guess music therapy
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.
artists fairly folks hear indie music musicians positively
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.