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David Byrne Inspirational Quotes (115)

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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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We live in ugly times.
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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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