Quotes by scottish authors

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. David Byrne

Attitude Punk Style Musical Defined Rather Than

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. David Byrne

Sex Ramones Television Sex Pistols Blondie Than Pistols Different Us Really

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. David Byrne

You Car Enjoy Runs Know How Still Riding

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. David Byrne

You Software Constraints Only Intended Confining Them Use Used

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. David Byrne

Music Musicians Positively Way Out Folks See Some Indie Fairly Spotify Hear Getting Artists Where Noticed Your

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. David Byrne

Work Possibility Inspiration New Come York New York Interaction Aside

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. David Byrne

You Few Indie Could Couple Instruments Label Chords Needed

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 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

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

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