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The world isn't logical, it's a song.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
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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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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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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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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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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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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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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
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