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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
— David Byrne
Tags: everyone, only, home, music

Other Quotes by "David Byrne"

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
— David Byrne
Tags: sometimes, random, together, myself
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
— David Byrne
Tags: stage, talk, face, people
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
— David Byrne
Tags: divorce, emotional, go, you
I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.
— David Byrne
Tags: sometimes, people, me, work
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
— David Byrne
Tags: meaning, way, words, song
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