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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. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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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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Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
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People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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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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You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
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I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
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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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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
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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 believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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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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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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