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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.

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
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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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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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
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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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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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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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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.
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Always be skeptical about simplicity.
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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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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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