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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. David Byrne

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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. David Byrne

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I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. David Byrne

Music People Guess Lot Choice Therapy Found

People use irony as a defense mechanism. David Byrne

People Defense Defense Mechanism Irony Use Mechanism

There's more good music being made now than ever before. David Byrne

Music Good Made Before Good Music More Than Being Now Ever

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. David Byrne

Music You Know Affects Often Just Translate Why

We live in ugly times. David Byrne

Ugly Live Times

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. David Byrne

Car Could Because Very Listen Much Radio

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. David Byrne

Life Tends Lot Accumulate Gets Often Which Decisions Ignored Mundane

The arts don't exist in isolation. David Byrne

Isolation Exist Arts

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. David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. David Byrne

You Technology People Record Records Allowed Cheap Make Really Laptop

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. David Byrne

Music Sometimes Sort

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! David Byrne

People Made Face Stage Sense See Face-To-Face About Like Talk Retrospect Sure Got Screaming Started Twitching

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. David Byrne

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Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. David Byrne

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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. David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. David Byrne

Buy Creativity Will Poverty Young Down Believe Folks Wear Some Put Inevitably Up Person Artistic While Breeds Hardship

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. David Byrne

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Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. David Byrne

Music You Technology Recording Before Could Context Existed Social Separate

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