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" I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. "

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" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "

" Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. "

" Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. "

" That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. "

" That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" 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. "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

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

" 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. "

" Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. "

" Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. "

" I've never had writer's block. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. "

" 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

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" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "

" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

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

" 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. "

" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

" We don't make music - it makes us. "

David Byrne

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

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "