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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
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I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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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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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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