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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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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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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.
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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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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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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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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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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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