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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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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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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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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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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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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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