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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. "
David Byrne
Not Talking
Restaurant
Talking
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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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" When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. "
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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 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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" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "
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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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" 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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" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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! "
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" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "
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" Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. "
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See
Hear
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" 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. "
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Good
" I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part. "
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People
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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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Small
Years
You
" I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. "
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Afraid
World
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" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "
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" I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. "
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" To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. "
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" It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. "
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" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "
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" Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. "
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" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "
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" 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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" Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. "
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