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David Byrne Inspirational Quotes (116)

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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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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
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There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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