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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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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 never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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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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Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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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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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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