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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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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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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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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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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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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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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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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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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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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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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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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
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