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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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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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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 don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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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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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
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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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We don't make music, it makes us
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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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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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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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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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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