David Byrne Quotes

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

But, I think I first got into cars because of an electric car - it was the Tesla. And then, just the fact that they are such high-tech products. There's automated driving. There's battery technology, all the other stuff that goes into it.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Chrysler builds great cars.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.