QUOTES by David Byrne
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"I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it."
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"People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes."
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"Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters."
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"Temple and cathedral are attractive because they spatially and acoustically recreate the cave, where early humans first expressed their spiritual yearnings."
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"It was the best show I’d ever seen; it was so tight and choreographed that it seemed to be from another planet, a planet where everyone was incredible."
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"Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance."
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"It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order."
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"Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing. It’s whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day."
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"Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that’s when the details take on larger meanings."
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"Years ago I was an angry young man I'd pretend that I was a billboard standing tall by the side of the road I fell in love with the beautiful highway"
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"When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings."
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"As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again."
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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"The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying."
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"For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything."
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"The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know."
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"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"
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"The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique."
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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."
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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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"Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration."
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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 think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway."
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"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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"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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"The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time."
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"I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car."
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"I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff."
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"Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community."
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"I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant."
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"I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing."
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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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