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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'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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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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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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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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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
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My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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