Quote #4

(On why he hates the term 'world music'): It's a way of relegating this 'thing' into the realm of something exotic and therefore cute, weird but safe, because exotica is beautiful but irrelevant.

More from David Byrne

  1. On the music of Talking Heads, from Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums:
  2. To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
  3. There is a finite number of jokes in the universe.
  4. Nuclear weapons could destroy all life on earth, if used properly.

All David Byrne quotes