David Byrne Quotes

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

There's always room for Jell-O

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.