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" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "
David Byrne
Just
Music
People
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" Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. "
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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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" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "
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" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "
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" 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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" I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. "
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Writing
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" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "
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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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" 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 came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "
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" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "
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" All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. "
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Few
Label
Needed
" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "
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Frank
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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
" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "
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Car
Radio
Much
" Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. "
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Objects
Tin
Suburban
" 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
Triumph
" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "
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Brooklyn
Bike
Little
" Physical contact is a human necessity. "
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Physical
Contact
Human
" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "
David Byrne
Immigrant
Vote
Election
" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "
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Unless
Never
Car
" There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. "
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Walking
Freedom
Eye
" The arts don't exist in isolation. "
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Isolation
Arts
Exist
" 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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Drawing
Doing
Fear
" 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. "
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" It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. "
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Person
Music
" 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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Television
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" I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. "
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Choice
" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "
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History
You