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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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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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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 like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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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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