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" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "
David Byrne
Stage
People
Got
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" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "
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" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "
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" The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. "
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" Physical contact is a human necessity. "
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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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Effort
Financial
Song
" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "
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Friends
Magazine
" I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. "
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" I don't like begging money from producers. "
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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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Early
More
Sit
" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "
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Functional
Frank
Beautiful
" 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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Learning
Think
Support
" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "
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Love
Out
Zone
" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "
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Out
Camera
Beautiful
" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "
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Happy Marriage
Always
Happy
" 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. "
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Anything
Only
Home
" I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes. "
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River
Bike
Day
" 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
" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "
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You
Still
Riding
" I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "
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Business
Emotional
Body
" 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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Love
Lot
People
" That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? "
David Byrne
Here
Suit
Why
" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "
David Byrne
Same
Wanted
Time
" 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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Through
You
Yourself
" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "
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Music
Sort
Sometimes
" I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. "
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Music
Concert
Video
" The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "
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Music
Market
Affected
" Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. "
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Experience
Music
You
" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "
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Much
Making
Lists
" 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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Off
Just
Think