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David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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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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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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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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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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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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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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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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