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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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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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Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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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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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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Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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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 have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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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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