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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. "

David Byrne

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" 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. "

" The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

" 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. "

" I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know. "

" To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. "

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

" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

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

" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "

David Byrne

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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. "

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

" I don't like begging money from producers. "

David Byrne

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

" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" 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. "

" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

David Byrne

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" I've got nothing to say most of the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "

" 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. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

" Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. "