David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ”

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? ”

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? ”

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. ”

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. ”

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. ”

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. ”

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. ”

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. ”

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. ”