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David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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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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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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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 couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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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.
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