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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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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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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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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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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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