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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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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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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.
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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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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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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Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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