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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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.
David Byrne
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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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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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
David Byrne
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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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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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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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
David Byrne
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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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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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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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 are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
David Byrne
We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
David Byrne
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
David Byrne
