“The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.” Quote by Kareem Mortimer
“When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.” WritingCharacterSpeakJustify Author:Kareem Mortimer
“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.” SongFoolRhythmMelodyGet Involved Author:David Byrne
“In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.” CreativeCreative Process Author:David Byrne
“There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.” PeopleFeelingsFightingHurtOpinionCuriousProvokingBiologistSocial InteractionHurting Others Author:David Byrne
“The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.” GivingKindCultureInterestingCreativeAll KindsImaginary Author:David Byrne
“I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't compete with the major labels for some acts, so you figure, "Okay, what could I introduce to people, or what do I like that is within my means?"” PeopleMeanSometimesOkayIntroducingFringe Author:David Byrne
“There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.” MeanRealFeelingsSongEmotionCryCommunicate Author:David Byrne
“A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.” PeopleCountryBreakAudience Author:David Byrne
“When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts online that aren't going to get me in trouble. I'll save the rest for myself." It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, "Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries." So I thought, "Well, let's see what happens when I post some of it."” PeopleThinkingWritingKindEnoughEasyTroubleOkayBotherOnline Author:David Byrne
“I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.” FirstsEasyFateTerribleFirst TimeHorseBlowGambleGood Horse Author:Jack Klugman