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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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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
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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 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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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