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David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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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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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
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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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