Music Quotes

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

David Bowie

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

David Byrne

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection ...

David Byrne

We don't make music - it makes us.

David Byrne

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

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.

David Byrne

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

David Byrne

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

David Byrne

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all thi...

David Byrne

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the m...

David Byrne

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Debby Boone

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Dennis Brown

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Dennis Brown