David Byrne Quotes
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The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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Science's job is to map our ignorance.
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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
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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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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
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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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The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means - allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece - when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!".
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
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My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?"
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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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I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.
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Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
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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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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
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Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.
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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
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
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A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.
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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.
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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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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