It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
I love getting out of my comfort zone.
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.
Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.
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.’
We don’t make music – it makes us.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
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.
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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