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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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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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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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We live in ugly times.
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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 try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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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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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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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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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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