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" That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? "
David Byrne
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Why
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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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" 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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" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "
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" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "
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" 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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" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "
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" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "
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" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "
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" I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. "
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Wanted
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" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "
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Work
Think
Single
" 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. "
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You
" 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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Just
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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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Music
Kind
" Physical contact is a human necessity. "
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Physical
Contact
Human
" We live in ugly times. "
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Live
Times
Ugly
" I've got nothing to say most of the time. "
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Say
Time
Got
" Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. "
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Inspiration
New
New York
" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "
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Emotional
Go
Divorce
" I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. "
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Think
Start
" Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. "
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Love
Talk
You
" 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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Song
High School
Jam
" 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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Anything
Only
Home
" 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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Sit
" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "
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You
Still
Riding
" I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "
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Beyond
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" Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. "
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Than
" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "
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Little
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Beauty
" I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. "
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" I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. "
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