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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
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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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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
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Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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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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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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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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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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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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We live in ugly times.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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