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Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
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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've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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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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London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.
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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
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I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.
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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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