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We don't make music, it makes us
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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.
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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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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
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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.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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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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