David Byrne Quotes

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.