If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. David Byrne on music
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. David Byrne on music
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. David Byrne on music
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. David Byrne on music
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.' David Byrne on politics
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 on trust
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. David Byrne on trust