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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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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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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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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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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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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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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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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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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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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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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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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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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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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
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Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
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