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There's more good music being made now than ever before.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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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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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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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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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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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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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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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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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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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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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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