A Quote by David Byrne

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

David Byrne

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Music Affects Just Know Often Translate Why

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David Byrne
Scottish - Musician
Born: May 14, 1952

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

Susan McClary

Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

Abby Wambach

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Voltaire

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you just don't know why you're dancing but the music just makes you move.

Kerry James Marshall

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

Kirsten Lepore

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

Tod Machover

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

Rose George

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

Isaac Stern

There's not usually one reason why we do anything and, in fact, often we don't know why we've done what we've done, especially what we have said or why, for instance, in conversation, which can be very tricky. Finally, we say something and think, "Why did we say that?" In retrospect we might know.

Lynne Tillman

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

Laurie Anderson

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

Grant Gustin

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Abhay Deol

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.

Lil Uzi Vert

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.