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We live in ugly times.

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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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
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I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
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My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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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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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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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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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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