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Body odor is the window to the soul.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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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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I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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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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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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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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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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We live in ugly times.
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