#music

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

#brazilian music #even #i #last #me

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. ↗

— David Byrne

#almost #art #backwards #emotional #ideas

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

#bands #crap #decide #given #going

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. ↗

— David Byrne

#ask #finding #front #guess #i

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

#empathize #guarantee #happen #i #i think

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 this obsessive behavior. ↗

— David Byrne

#behavior #done #encourages #invites #kind

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

— David Byrne

#just #know #music #often #translate

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ↗

— George Byron

#i #i love #intrudes #less #lonely

When we separate music from life we get art. ↗

— John Cage

#get #life #music #separate

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. ↗

— Maria Callas

#ear #fails #heart #missed #music