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" Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. "
David Byrne
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" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "
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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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" One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. "
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" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "
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" 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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" 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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" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "
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" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "
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" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "
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" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "
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" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "
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" I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. "
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" I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. "
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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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" 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 wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "
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" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "
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" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "
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" Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. "
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Before
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" I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. "
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Talking
" Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "
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" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "
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" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "
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" 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. "
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" We don't make music - it makes us. "
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" The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert. "
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" I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. "
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" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "
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