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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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