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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
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There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.
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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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There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.
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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
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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 like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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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 live in ugly times.
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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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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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 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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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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Body odor is the window to the soul.
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
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