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" Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. "
David Byrne
Television
Different
Sex
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" We don't make music - it makes us. "
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" In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words. "
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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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" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "
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" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "
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" I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. "
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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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" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "
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" One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune. "
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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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" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "
David Byrne
Car
Radio
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" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "
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Green
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" 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
" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "
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Things
More
Idea
" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "
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Know
Meet
Me
" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "
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Out
Camera
Beautiful
" 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
" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "
David Byrne
Much
Making
Lists
" 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. "
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Just
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People
" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "
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Unless
Never
Car
" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "
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Why
You
Just
" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "
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Tend
Mistake
Music
" 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. "
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" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "
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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 have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "
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" 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. "
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Focus
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Surprises
" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "
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Information
Mind
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" The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? "
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Personal
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" 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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