David Byrne's Reading List

"taking the long view: a poetic view of human generations and activity measured in tree-time. The writing is beautiful and often heartbreaking."

"made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."

"When you have that many things — how you order them, how they are described, determines how that information is used and perceived. To name is to control."

"a history of the Vienna school of philosophers, physicists, economists and lunatics."

"I love that sense of music not being an isolated thing but existing among everything else that goes on."

"was pretty great."

"Apparently they communicate with one another via chemicals that waft on the wind and via a fungal network underground. They warn of parasites, they feed their fellows in time of need."