David Byrne Quotes

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

Because I think I am pretty left-brained - more than I gave myself credit for - I think I've managed to really dissect emotions. At least my own. And I've been able to understand what they do, how they do it, and when.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.