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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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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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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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We don't make music, it makes us
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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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There's more good music being made now than ever before.
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
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I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
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A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
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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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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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