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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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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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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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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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I love getting out of my comfort zone.
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My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
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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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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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