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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
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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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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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We don't make music, it makes us
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
David Byrne
As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
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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 love getting out of my comfort zone.
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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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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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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've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
David Byrne
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne
When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
David Byrne
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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