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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Unlimited
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Paralyze
Creatively
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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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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
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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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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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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
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