"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."
-David Byrne
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
-David Byrne
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"I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'"
-David Byrne
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"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
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"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."
-David Byrne
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"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
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"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
-George Lamming
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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
-Edwin Lutyens
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"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
-Richard Meier
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
-James Wyatt
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"Architecture aims at Eternity."
-Christopher Wren
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
-Gustav Stickley
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