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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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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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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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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 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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We don't make music, it makes us
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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