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" 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. "

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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. "

David Byrne

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" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "

" 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 couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

" 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. "

" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "

" 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. "

" I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. "

" 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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" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

David Byrne

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" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

" Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

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

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

" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "

" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "

" There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. "

" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "

" It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. "

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

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

David Byrne

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" 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. "