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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
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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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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
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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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My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
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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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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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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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