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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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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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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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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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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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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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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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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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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 don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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