David Byrne Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

  David Byrne

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

  David Byrne

  Order, Swim, Feelings

• There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.

  David Byrne

  Hurt, Fighting, People

• By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

  David Byrne

  Zero, Talking, Feelings

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2011.

• There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

  David Byrne

  Song, Real, Mean

• There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

  David Byrne

  Song, Feelings, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

• With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.

  David Byrne

  Mean, Feelings, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

• There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

  David Byrne

  Song, Feelings, Emotion

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

• My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

  David Byrne

  Feelings, Denial, Incredibles

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Guernica Interview, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

• If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

  David Byrne

  Feelings, Way, Angle

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