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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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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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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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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.
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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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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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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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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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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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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The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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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.
David Byrne
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
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