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David Byrne Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a meaning and each of us is unique.”
— David Byrne
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Deception, Uniqueness
“Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?


David Byrne: I would get something to eat.”
— David Byrne, Stop Making Sense
Tagged: Money, eating, Spending
“Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing. It’s whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.”
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Tagged: Music, Dimension
“There's a party in my mind, and I hope it never stops
There's a party up there all the time, and they'll party until they drop”
— David Byrne, Memories Can't Wait
Tagged: party, Joy, Happiness
“The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.”
— David Byrne, Stop Making Sense
Tagged: Singing, voice, Weakness, Advantage
“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that’s when the details take on larger meanings.”
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Tagged: Simplicity, Transparency, Details, Meaning
“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”
— David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
Tagged: Creativity, Produce, Emotional Stuff
“I myself, I'm a creature of Scotland.”
— David Byrne, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Season 2: Fire Drill
“And she was drifting through the backyard And she was taking off her dress
And she was moving very slowly, rising up above the earth
Moving into the universe, and she's drifting this way and that
Not touching the ground at all, and she's up above the yard”
— David Byrne, And She Was
Tagged: Movement, Dancing, Graceful, Dreaming
“And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife
You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here?”
— David Byrne, Once In A Lifetime
Tagged: Journey, Path, Life, Decisions
“We know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowing
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out.”
— David Byrne, Road To Nowhere
Tagged: Uncertainty, Nowhere, Time, Desire, Future
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