David Byrne Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• 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

• With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

  David Byrne

  Music, Translate, Knows

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

• 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.

  David Byrne

  Music, Song, Believe

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

  David Byrne

  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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