Famous quotes by Musicians

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade"

"I'm still me even after all that's happened"

"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

"I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15"

"I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it"

"I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details"

"Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?"

"Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?"

"We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music"

"They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers"

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

"At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage"

"When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring"

"A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex"

"We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater"

"It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows"

"When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s"

"We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality"

"Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue"

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter"

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

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that"

"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"

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

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"

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

"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously"

"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots"