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David Byrne
David Byrne
Scottish Musician
Born: May 14, 1952
Good Music People Think Time You
Related authors: Angus Young Annie Lennox David Russell Emeli Sande Lewis Capaldi Malcolm Young Shirley Manson Stevie Jackson
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. David Byrne
Take Pictures Hills Green Rolling
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. David Byrne
People Face Stage Face-To-Face Talk Got Screaming Started Twitching
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. David Byrne
Rebellion Seriously Corporation Find Take Major Packaged Little Hard
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. David Byrne
Business Bass Dramatic Strings Emotional Combine Like Drums Warmth Body Groove
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. David Byrne
Trust Read Times NY NY Times
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. David Byrne
Will Everything Get Same Afraid Homogenized
I'm guarded; I don't talk much. David Byrne
Guarded Talk Much
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. David Byrne
Love Hate People Latin Latin America Ways Some Also Emulate Does Afar Lot America Them Things
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. David Byrne
Another Lot Bands Different Really Started
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. David Byrne
Music People Car Made Down Think Musical Abandon Winding Only Instruments Commodity Apartments Might Reign Professionals Start Playing Suggesting
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. David Byrne
Vote Election Immigrant Federal Am Green Green Card Therefore Card Eligible
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. David Byrne
Business Bass Dramatic Strings Seem Emotional Combine Like Drums Warmth Body Groove
Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. David Byrne
Time You Together Song Financial Band Whatever Sense Else Kind More Studio Performing Makes Doing Bundle Than Effort Getting Going Break Format Little Hard Reason Away Album
I've never had writer's block. David Byrne
Writer Never Had Block
We tend to mistake music for the physical object. David Byrne
Music Mistake Physical Object Tend
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. David Byrne
Music Home Everyone Out Only No-One Heard Lot Listens Anything Really Electronic Electronic Music Hardly Enjoying
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. David Byrne
Music People Guitar Law Too Many People Too Ninety Ninety Percent Percent Given Always Bands Going Just Crap Decide Them Then Many
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. David Byrne
Home Whatever Cassette Records Studio Make Yeah Bedrooms Go Microphone Anybody Little Deck Two
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. David Byrne
Injustice Financial Comeback Word Situation Sense Out General Having Economic Mentioned General Sense Marx He Global Terms Well Him Around Without Hear Refer Lot America Experts Using Actually
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. David Byrne
Think Wears Case Guy Had Off Just After While Younger Mild
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. David Byrne
Music People Guess Lot Choice Therapy Found
People use irony as a defense mechanism. David Byrne
People Defense Defense Mechanism Irony Use Mechanism
There's more good music being made now than ever before. David Byrne
Music Good Made Before Good Music More Than Being Now Ever
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. David Byrne
Music You Know Affects Often Just Translate Why
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. David Byrne
Music Art Me Backwards About Outlet Seems More Emotional Almost Stuff Ideas
We live in ugly times. David Byrne
Ugly Live Times
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