David Byrne

We join Talking Heads frontman David Byrne as he offers his advice to young artists and musicians wanting to get ahead in the creative industries.

“If the musician or artist values their freedom and their ability to be creative, then they have to realise that they won’t be making hundreds of millions of dollars,” Bryne continued. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over again with some small changes, but, more or less, they have to keep making the same thing.” Byrne hits on something worth remembering: that the rewards of a truly creative life are beyond wealth. “They might be making less money, but they might have more artistic satisfaction. Following Talking Heads’ split, Byrne went on to forge a successful solo career while also establishing himself as an authority in the worlds of theatre, literature, performance art and Bryne rose to fame as the frontman of Talking Heads, who, despite being remarkably distinct from their Downtown New York contemporaries, have come to encapsulate the New Wave explosion of the mid-1970s.