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Famous David Byrne Quotes
“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”
“Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.”
“I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.”
“I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.”
“Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.”
“Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.”
“Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.”
“That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?”
“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
“All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.”
“Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?”
“Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.”
“Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.”
“I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”
“I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.”
“I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.”
“I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.”
“I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.”