David Byrne Quotes

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.