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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
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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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
David Byrne
What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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