David Byrne
“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.”
“The arts don’t exist in isolation.”
“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
“Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.”
“Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics — they’re all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know.”
Damon Albarn
“Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.”
“In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.”
“Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don’t like new with change.”
“Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It’s a very futuristic place.”
“I don’t really have the desire to be famous. It’s not that important to me.”