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David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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We live in ugly times.
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
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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 never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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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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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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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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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
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