What chords did I play there?
Howd the melody go?
And Ill record like that.
LOS ANGELES - APRIL 11: Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician David Byrne of Talking Heads and composer Cong Su attend the 60th Annual Academy Awards on April 11, 1988 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
On working with Bertolucci onThe Last Emperor:
There was a bit of trial and error in the beginning.
So, I had this whole stack of cassettes that I was listening to, which was really enlightening.
This was before the kind of Chinese economic miracle, before they kind of opened up a bit.
David Byrne attends the 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at TAO Downtown on January 04, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
It was all these different kinds of music that were being done there.
You couldnt generalize about any of it.
Theres not one particular kind of Chinese music.
It meant that you have to have a sense that youre going somewhere.
The country, the whole countrys kind of in, you know, virtual lockdown.
They kill him right away, and thats the last straw for the people.
On a Talking Heads reunion:
No.
Were not going to do it.
