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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
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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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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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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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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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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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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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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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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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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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
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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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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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The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.
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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
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