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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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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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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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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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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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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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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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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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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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