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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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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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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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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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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
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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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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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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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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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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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