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

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
- David Byrne Quote

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
- David Byrne Quote

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
- David Byrne Quote

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
- David Byrne Quote

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
- David Byrne Quote

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
- David Byrne Quote

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
- David Byrne Quote

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
- David Byrne Quote

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
- David Byrne Quote

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
- David Byrne Quote

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.
- David Byrne Quote

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
- David Byrne Quote

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
- David Byrne Quote

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
- David Byrne Quote

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
- David Byrne Quote

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 Quote

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
- David Byrne Quote

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
- David Byrne Quote
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
- David Byrne Quote

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
- David Byrne Quote

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 Quote