David Byrne Quotes

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• Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

  David Byrne

  Love, Fidgeting, Common

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• You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

  David Byrne

  May, Wells

  "Song: 'Once In A Lifetime'". 1980.

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• People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

  David Byrne

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

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• Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

  David Byrne

  People, Creative, Intuition

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

  David Byrne

  Song, Believe, Design

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• The world isn't logical, it's a song.

  David Byrne

  Song, World, Logical

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.165, Penguin

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• The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

  David Byrne

  Knowledge, Knows

  "The New Sins". Book by David Byrne, www.alternet.org. 2001.

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Bears, Ridiculous

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• I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

  David Byrne

  Advertisements, Versions

  Song: Angels, Album: David Byrne

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• To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

  David Byrne

  Inspirational, Music, Responsibility

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• I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

  David Byrne

  Color, Sky, White

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "True Stories", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• 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.

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  Art, Makeup, Brain

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• I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

  David Byrne

  Song, Writing, Animal

  "Stop Making Sense". Documentary, Music, 1984.

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• Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

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  Lonely, Cycling, Way

  "Cycle killer: David Byrne on the joys of cycling" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

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• When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

  David Byrne

  Money

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• I don't care how impossible it seems.

  David Byrne

  Care, Impossible, Seems

  David Byrne, Frank Olinsky, Talking Heads (Musical group) (1987). “What the songs look like”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

  David Byrne

  Unique, Self, Two

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• I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

  David Byrne

  Secret, Agents, Astronaut

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• We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Bird

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• Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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  Analysis, Want, Lobotomy

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• Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

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  Music, People, Singing

  "Budos Band offers urgent, mysterious jams at 9:30 Club" by Chris Klimek, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

  David Byrne

  Choices, Unlimited

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2004.

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• Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

  David Byrne

  Simple, Views, Lazy

  David Byrne, Frank Olinsky, Talking Heads (Musical group) (1987). “What the songs look like”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

  David Byrne

  School, People, Training

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• Science's job is to map our ignorance.

  David Byrne

  Jobs, Ignorance, Maps

  David Byrne (2006). “Arboretum”, McSweeneys Books

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