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We don't make music, it makes us

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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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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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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