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David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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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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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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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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There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.
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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
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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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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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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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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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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 try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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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 don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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