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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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We live in ugly times.
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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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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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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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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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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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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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