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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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" In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words. "

David Byrne

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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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" 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.' "

" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "

" 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. "

" Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. "

" 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. "

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "

" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

" I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. "

" To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "

David Byrne

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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. "

" I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. "

" When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. "

" Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "

" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "

" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "

" 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. "