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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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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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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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We live in ugly times.
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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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