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" All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. "
David Byrne
Few
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Needed
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" We don't make music - it makes us. "
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Makes
" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "
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Friends
Magazine
" If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. "
David Byrne
Anything
Only
Home
" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "
David Byrne
Spicy
Day
Dinner
" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "
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Help
Stupid
Turn
" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "
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Community
Create
You
" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "
David Byrne
Trust
NY
Read
" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "
David Byrne
Constraints
Used
Software
" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "
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Things
More
Idea
" There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. "
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Behavior
Know
Listening
" I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know. "
David Byrne
Focus
You
Surprises
" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "
David Byrne
Early
More
Sit
" It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. "
David Byrne
Emotional
Ideas
Me
" Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. "
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Rather
Style
Than
" Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? "
David Byrne
Edges
Wants
Who
" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "
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Joy
Transport
Cycling
" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "
David Byrne
Happy Marriage
Always
Happy
" I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "
David Byrne
Creativity
Once
You
" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "
David Byrne
Emotional
Go
Divorce
" The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. "
David Byrne
Most
World
Popular
" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "
David Byrne
Community
Coming
Anything
" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "
David Byrne
Immigrant
Vote
Election
" 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. "
David Byrne
Own
Perfect
View
" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "
David Byrne
Artist
Fine
New York
" I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. "
David Byrne
Person
Less
Worse
" So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. "
David Byrne
You
Music
Kind
" You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly. "
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Play
Mistake
Know
" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "
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Emotional
Warmth
Like
" I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either. "
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Stop
Proud
Bit
" I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. "
David Byrne
Artist
Leg
Me