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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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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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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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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 can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
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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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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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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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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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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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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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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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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'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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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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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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