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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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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
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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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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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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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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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