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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.
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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
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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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We don't make music, it makes us
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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