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David Byrne
Scottish
Musician
Born:
May 14
,
1952
Good
Music
People
Think
Time
You
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
David Byrne
Everything
Intentional
Just
Dots
Filling
I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
David Byrne
Trouble
Could
Beyond
Practicality
Imagining
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
David Byrne
Day
Great
Voting
Old
Young
Rich
Neighborhood
One Day
Booth
Out
Joint
Poor
Turn
Decrepit
Whole
Leveler
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
David Byrne
Bit
Brooklyn
Armstrong
Get
Manhattan
Place
Little
Little Bit
Lance Armstrong
Bike
Use
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.
David Byrne
Music
Home
Musicians
Try
Band
Own
Out
More
Studio
Stuff
Devote
Making
Lot
Friends
Than
Trying
Hanging
Influence
Afternoon
Subtly
Your
Fun
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David Byrne
Happy
Marriage
Guess
Always
Been
Quick
Fix
Wanted
Happy Marriage
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne
You
Creativity
Myth
Subscribe
Once
Draw
Torment
Fixed
Artist
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.
David Byrne
You
Liberate
Way
PowerPoint
Knows
Another
Another Way
Any
May
Artistic
Use
Who
Presentation
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
David Byrne
Secure
Dreaded
Run
Wear
Park
Through
Part
Along
Town
Protected
Traffic
Hudson
Precarious
Paths
Central
Central Park
Meaning
Then
Helmet
Riding
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
Beautiful
Frank
Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright
Were
His
Very
Functional
Things
I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David Byrne
Big
Guy
More
Like
Known
Than
Being
Suit
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne
Music
Future
Building
Past
Invest
Instead
Why
Why Not
Preserve
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne
Time
Secret
Secret Agent
Astronaut
Same
Same Time
Wanted
Agent
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
David Byrne
Time
Day
Joy
Cycling
Faster
Other
Head
Clears
Than
Depending
Modes
Transport
Many
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
David Byrne
Day
Every Day
Ride
Path
Every
Similar
River
Almost
Almost Every Day
New
Protected
Fairly
Safer
Opposed
Hudson
York
Getting
New York
Bike
Riding
Streets
Here
Alert
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David Byrne
Music
Me
World
Occur
Person
Brazilian
Brazilian Music
Should
Who
Even
Play
Last
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David Byrne
Attitude
Punk
Style
Musical
Defined
Rather
Than
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
Sex
Ramones
Television
Sex Pistols
Blondie
Than
Pistols
Different
Us
Really
I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
David Byrne
Good
People
Think
Faster
Correct
Over
Because
Gets
Going
Politically
Politically Correct
Them
Bikes
Switch
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.
David Byrne
Become
Not Talking
Easier
Restaurant
Table
About
Records
Talking
Am
Lot
Selling
Getting
Certain
Noticed
Certain Things
Things
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
David Byrne
You
Car
Enjoy
Runs
Know
How
Still
Riding
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
David Byrne
You
Software
Constraints
Only
Intended
Confining
Them
Use
Used
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
David Byrne
Car
Own
Pedestrian
Slightly
Eye
Above
Perfect
Town
Gets
Just
Being
Bike
View
Level
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
Music
Musicians
Positively
Way
Out
Folks
See
Some
Indie
Fairly
Spotify
Hear
Getting
Artists
Where
Noticed
Your
Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.
David Byrne
Work
Possibility
Inspiration
New
Come
York
New York
Interaction
Aside
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
David Byrne
You
Few
Indie
Could
Couple
Instruments
Label
Chords
Needed
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