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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.

David Byrne

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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
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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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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
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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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There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.
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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'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'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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