David Quotes

Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.

World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

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

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

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

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

I've never had writer's block.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

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

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

The world isn't logical, it's a song.

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

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.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.