David Byrne Biography

David Byrne, Musician
Occup.Musician
FromScotland
BornMarch 14, 1952
Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
Age72 years
David Byrne is a Scottish-American artist as well as multi musician. He is recognized largely as the frontman of the band Talking Heads, which was active from 1975 to 1991. He has actually ever since been active as a director, flick manufacturer, actor as well as record producer.

After his work with Speaking Heads, he has actually released a number of solo and collaborative jobs with Annie Erin Clark (better referred to as St. Vincent) and Brian Eno. Eno as well as Byrne later launched numerous tracks of My Life in the Shrub of Ghosts under a Creative Commons license; so that audiences can also download private songs at no cost and produce their own remix versions.

Byrne has actually also made musical contributions to films with film directors as Bernardo Bertolucci in The Last Emperor. This movie won an Oscar for ideal film music. On top of that, he directed and acted in the film True Stories, and he has actually directed numerous docudramas.

He has been understood to use contemporary innovation as well as progressive expressions in he's jobs. Byrne transformed in 2008 along with his affiliates an old building in New york city City to a tool. The devices had previously been utilized in a similar task in Sweden in 2005, and also in later time the London Roundhouse in 2009.

Given that 2005, Byrne has additionally run he's own online radio station called Radio David Byrne.

Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by David.

Related authors: Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Brian Eno (Musician), Bernardo Bertolucci (Director)

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33 Famous quotes by David Byrne

Small: Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really di
"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"
Small: Everythings intentional. Its just filling in the dots
"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots"
Small: I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously"
Small: Thats the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
Small: Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter
"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter"
Small: It didnt even occur to me that Im the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music
"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music"
Small: To some extent I happily dont know what Im doing. I feel that its an artists responsibility to trust th
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that"
Small: Ive been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. Ive lear
"I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that"
Small: Im afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same"
Small: My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food
"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"
Small: When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another
"When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another"
Small: The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers
"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray"
Small: Its not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix"
Small: I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car
"I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car"
Small: Im afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesnt fit t
"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary"
Small: I read the NY Times but I dont trust all of it
"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it"
Small: I couldnt talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitch
"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching"
Small: I subscribe to the myth that an artists creativity comes from torment. Once thats fixed, what do you dr
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
Small: I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend Im someone else
"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else"
Small: Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
"Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?"
Small: I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll
"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll"
Small: I didnt have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff
"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff"
Small: I couldnt take pictures of green rolling hills
"I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills"
Small: Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional
"Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional"
Small: Sometimes its a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence"
Small: Im guarded I dont talk much
"I'm guarded; I don't talk much"
Small: Id like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit
"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit"
Small: I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time
"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time"
Small: I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums
"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass"
Small: Architecture theory is very interesting
"Architecture theory is very interesting"
Small: All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label
"All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label"
Small: Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style
"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style"
Small: People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot
"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them"