David Byrne Quotes

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

Americans do not want to think that there is an alternative to what we have. Therefore, as soon as you say 'fascism' or whatever it might be, then the American response is to say 'no' because we lack the categories that allow us to think outside of the box that we are no longer in.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want