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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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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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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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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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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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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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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 still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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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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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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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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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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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 wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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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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