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David Byrne Quotes

Scottish - Musician | May 14, 1952 -

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Think Everyday More Always Anything

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

Car Freedom Eye Walking Easy You

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Fear Music Moving Doing Drawing

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Politics Yourself People Start Think

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Small Details Drama Going Exciting

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

You Software Constraints Used Only

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Technology People You Cheap Laptop

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

Music Sometimes Sort

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

Focus You Know Inside Box Surprises

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Mistake You Find Play New Know

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

People Face I Can Talk Stage See

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

Good School Me Song High School

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