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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. "
David Byrne
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" Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. "
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" I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. "
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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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" Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. "
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" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "
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" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "
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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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" I don't like begging money from producers. "
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" Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. "
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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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" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "
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" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "
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" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "
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" I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. "
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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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" Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. "
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" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "
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" There's more good music being made now than ever before. "
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" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "
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" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "
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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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