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I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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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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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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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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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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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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