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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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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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Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
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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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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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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
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We live in ugly times.
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