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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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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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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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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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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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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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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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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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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
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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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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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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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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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