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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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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 think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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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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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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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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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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