Top 141 Quotes by David Byrne

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

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

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

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

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.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.