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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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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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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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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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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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