40 quotes by David Byrne

“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.” — David Byrne

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“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.” — David Byrne

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“We don't make music - it makes us.” — David Byrne

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“People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.” — David Byrne

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“I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.” — David Byrne

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“We tend to mistake music for the physical object.” — David Byrne

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“I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.” — David Byrne

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“There's more good music being made now than ever before.” — David Byrne

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“The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.” — David Byrne

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“So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.” — David Byrne

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.” — David Byrne

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