David Byrne Quotes
The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
Quotes to Explore
-
The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
-
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
-
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
-
For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
-
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
-
I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
-
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
-
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
-
AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
-
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
-
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
-
I will run against anybody.
-
When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
-
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
-
If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
-
We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.
-
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
-
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
-
The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
