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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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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 don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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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.
David Byrne
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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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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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
David Byrne
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne
There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.
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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
David Byrne
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
David Byrne
You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
David Byrne
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
David Byrne
People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.
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