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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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We live in ugly times.
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
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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 read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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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 lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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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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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
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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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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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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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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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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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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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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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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
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